Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the seat in front of her. The conductor, taking tickets, stopped at her seat but she looked straight ahead. "Your ticket, madam," he said. She replied, "I have no ticket." He asked, "Your pass, then?" She looked him in the eyes as she held up the stump of an arm and answered, "This is my pass." The conductor took another look and kept on going. It was Jesse James's mother. It was the same conductor and the train that had brought the Pinkertons who dynamited the James house and blew Mrs. James's hand...
Died. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 66, famed Prohibitionist, longtime (1910-36) general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals; of uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack; in Portland, Ore. As leader of the U. S. Prohibition forces, ruddy-faced, goateed Prohibitor Wilson used to stump every State, speak before societies and clubs, at country fairs, on street corners and on emptied beer barrels. Of late he had devoted himself to his hobbies-simplified spelling, cattle breeding, a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped his pursuers...
...until he had been out of Parliament 15 years did Lord Beaverbrook see his old hobby horse E. F. T. come home a winner. Taking the stump with an alarm bell which rang every minute to indicate that $5,000 worth of foreign foods had gone into British mouths, he ranted through the general elections of 1931 with such good effect that Stanley Baldwin took over part of E. F. T. in the Conservative Party platform...
From John Hamilton John Janson soon received the $1,000 grand first prize. The Republican bigwigs were particularly pleased to have him win because a few weeks ago he had made stump speeches supporting his father, Harold J. Janson, as a candidate for Judge of Maricopa County on the Democratic ticket. Father Harold lost in the primary...
...Midwest States where major political battles were heading toward a showdown last week, rank & file newsmen tossed away their press cards and got up on the stump. And in both cases they found themselves trying to outshout their own publishers...