Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paste, scuttled back to Mississippi with the news that Senator Stephens was about to give a $9,000 job to a "damn Yankee" Republican. Pulling on his red campaign necktie, adjusting his diamond stickpin and purchasing the oldest and most dilapidated car he could find, Theodore Bilbo began to stump the State for Senator Stephens...
...soon became apparent to Theodore Bilbo that his camp-meeting, rabble-rousing rant had a definite appeal for rural "red necks." He became known as ''The Pearl of Pearl River County," sometimes called himself "The Old Maestro of the Stump," but more often simply referred to himself in the third person as "The Man Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria...
...Irishman was routed at the Democratic convention which selected General Cole last June. That reverse did not daunt Boston's three-time Mayor, a veteran of more than 20 years in the city's political Wild West Show. All things to all men, Jim Curley took the stump, talked tough to tough audiences, talked polite to polite conservatives. Above all, he talked New Deal, of which he proclaimed himself the uncompromising local apostle. Result: on primary day he trounced General Cole and the entrenched Ely-Walsh machine 283,583 to 128,111. "The primary vote," he boasted...
...cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah and at Hopkinsville, Ky., he got up on the stump at farmers' meetings to exclaim...
While Governor William Langer of North Dakota was on trial in Federal Court on a charge of forcing CWA workers to contribute to his political support, Lydia Cady Langer went out on the stump and campaigned to win her husband renomination (TIME, June 25). A frail woman with four children and little political experience, Mrs. Langer is the daughter of the late James Cleveland Cady, Manhattan architect who designed the Metropolitan Opera House. After her marriage 16 years ago in a Riverside Drive apartment, she went West with "Bill" Langer and left her New York ways and words forever behind...