Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign for your re-election." Impressed were observers by the fact that the first U. S. woman to be given such a diplomatic post was more sensitive to the political proprieties than most male Ambassadors and Ministers who think nothing of deserting their official jobs to take the stump...
...Conklings had forgotten their family squabble. In Manhattan Colonel Roscoe Conkling, descendant of the late Senator, and Mrs. Helen Walker Roman, niece of "The Man From Maine," announced that they were chairman and vice chairman respectively of a new organization calling itself the Progressive Republican Committee which will stump, not for Republican Nominee Landon, but for Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...election next week. Unlike South Carolina's Senator Byrnes, however, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison was up against the hardest fight in his long Democratic career. On the ballot Senator Harrison's opponent is onetime (1932-36) Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner; on the stump his real adversary was his Senate colleague, squat, little Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo...
...Finance Committee to Washington for a conference on taxes, the Mississippi campaign temporarily became a battle of governors: onetime Governor Conner and onetime Governor Bilbo v. Governor Hugh White and onetime Acting Governor Dennis Murphree, whom the New Deal gave leave of absence from the National Emergency Council to stump for New Dealer Harrison...
...Moscow, last week, thousands of hatless workers so jampacked the hump-backed surface of Red Square that dozens fainted in the congestion. For hours they listened to Soviet stump-thumpers whipping up enthusiasm for the plight of "brother workers" in Spain, then voted part of their monthly wages for a Spanish Government defense fund. At week's end it was announced that 12,000,000 roubles ($2,400,000; had been collected from this and other Bolshevik mass meetings, transferred through the Soviet State bank to the Spanish Government...