Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, famed Congressional Medal winner (40 dead Germans in a single engagement), decided to go into politicking, prepared to stump for the G.O.P. A converted Democrat (converted by the head of Pennsylvania's Young Republicans, who said they were only paying his expenses), Hero Kelly ditched his Pittsburgh filling station, hopes to find a business with more leisure, and later on run for some public office...
...after the final game of the season, U.S. baseball fans did not know who would play in the World Series (see SPORT). But there was never any doubt who would be on hand to tell them about it. For the tenth year, Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum, Hearst's stump-shaped sports columnist, got ready last week for radio's biggest sports event...
...Sharp pointed to Martin's opposition to the fortification of Guam in 1941 and to his firm position against pro-labor and price control legislation. She quoted Wilson Wyatt, National Housing Expediter, as telling her in Washington last week that "I'd like to come up and stump your district. It's largely because of one man in Washington that the veterans housing program is 3 1/2 months behind schedule--because of one man, Joseph W. Martin of Attleboro...
Taking the stump for her own candidacy and her party's program, Martha Sharp, Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives running against minority leader Joe Martin, will address the Harvard Liberal Union in Phillips Brooks-House at 7:30 o'clock this evening...
...Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...