Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner, conversational public speeches bear no resemblance to the traditional windblown locks, flapping coat tails, and fiery eloquence of the silver-tongued demagog. It is true that his first political campaign, conducted in his native Indiana when he was still at the unripe age of 19, consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged 25, having graduated from DePauw University, Elmer Thomas started for the lands of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes, to "make the run" when the Great White Father threw open Indian Territory...
...left-handed bad boy of the Tariff Commission. He will shortly behold his dream- a rationalized, selective tariff-walking and talking in & out of the White House. California's white-crested Johnson, who Bull-Moosed with another Roosevelt, found the New Deal sufficiently "progressive" to go out and stump for it in 1932. Louisiana's rowdy Long is, of course, merely the loudest noise on the Left, going further than any one as is his wont. He wants, for example, a capital levy...
When General Johnson went to the Midwest last month to stump for the NRA, he was invading a land embittered by falling agricultural prices, pocked by rural unrest. Last week the NRAdministrator made his first swing South. Ten cent cotton had disposed its people favorably toward the President's recovery program. At Atlanta, where he was cheered by 3,500 Georgians, the General was in top forensic form...
...safety at home and national security abroad." Flaying this platitude as "weak and vague," the Paris Press clamored for an end to what was called "the massacre of Ministries." As yet no French would-be-dictator loomed, but that slashing Conservative, onetime Premier Andre Tardieu, get out on a stump-speaking tour of the provinces to thunder: "Liberty must be protected by Authority!" Though protesting that he does not aspire to become a Hitler or Mussolini, M. Tardieu warned that "There are rising at the doors of France regimes of mass dictatorships imported from Asia . . . demanding: in France a strong...
What they were all treated to was an oldfashioned, rip-snorting stump speech by an Old Guardsman whose battle-cry was: ''Back to the Constitution...