Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes shredded and shoes worn through, wretched with ptomaine poisoning from a can of beans. Few hours later the Polish team knew that they would...
Meanwhile the handsome, velvet-horned seven-point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
...Labor Department. In Madam Secretary Perkins is concentrated all the philosophy of the New Deal and most of its instinctive sympathy for the working man. Early & late she has served as his able, articulate spokesman around the Cabinet table, before Congressional committees, at NRA hearings, on the stump. For the first time in years the working man may feel that there is a trained mind functioning for him in Washington. Gone are the easy platitudes of the politician; Miss Perkins speaks the idiom of the advanced welfare worker, the scientific sociologist...
...large part of Morgan & Co.'s profit, if not the larger part of its prestige, has been created by its securities business. To give up either part of its activities might easily deprive the other of much profit and prestige. The choice open to Morgan was enough to stump the ablest of bankers. The House of Morgan, ready with no extempore solution, appeared to face a turning point in its history...
...journalism" could best serve The People. The measures he introduced in Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor, Governor and President, his motives were never sufficiently trusted by The People ("Who Think"). Perhaps, eloquent though he became on the stump, he was too mental for them, too synthetic. It was a simpler, earthier politician than T. R. who drove Hearst out of politics-Al Smith, with the astutely simple declaration. "He's no Democrat." On his Enchanted Hill with his seventies upon him, it is a question whether Hearst...