Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
With this mandate to speak for the State, scraggle-haired, bespectacled Governor Talmadge has bawled unceasingly against the New Deal and all its works. Last week he announced that he was about to stump the entire cotton belt "telling the people just how they are being hoodwinked by this policy of destroying cotton, wheat and corn." Politically proud that he is a "dirt farmer," Governor Talmadge also sounded off characteristically with declarations that Secretary Wallace should be sentenced to two years behind a plow, that he knew little about Undersecretary Tugwell except that "they tell me he is poison...
Each year on the second Monday in April the nominating committee of the New York Stock Exchange posts a hand-picked slate of officers and governors for the May elections. During the preceding month it holds three open meetings at which brokers suggest candidates, make stump speeches. In the end, however, the nominating committee from the depth of its own wisdom names whom it pleases. Throughout the 143 years since organized trading began under the old buttonwood tree on Wall Street, official nominations have been, almost without exception, tantamount to election...
...become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared profusely bandaged. A little girl of nine, supposed to have had her arm blown off by an air bomb, happily displayed a red-daubed papier-mache stump...
After three days the Treasury reported 2,389 arrests. Confiscated had been several million dollars worth of jewels, narcotics, liquor, stills, livestock, automobiles, boats, lottery tickets and, in Montana, a stump-puller on which duty had not been paid. Alcohol Tax agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold...