Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tussle. * Young Carl went to the two-room Bug Tussle school, then to high school in McAlester (he was the first Bug Tussle pupil ever to progress as far as a high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics, at the age of 15 took the stump for the local Democratic candidate for the state legislature. At the University of Oklahoma, Albert majored in political science, was student council president, Phi Beta Kappa, a tournament bridge player, a sprinter, a 118-lb. wrestler (he now weighs 168), a member of the chess team and the pistol squad...
...That's It." In the House, Albert voted along generally liberal lines, except on civil rights issues, served as an effective member of the Agriculture Committee. Although he had earned a reputation back home in Oklahoma as a skillful stump speaker, he has addressed the House only where necessary. Speaker Sam Rayburn. whose Fourth Texas District is just across the Red River from Albert's, took a fatherly, neighborly interest in Albert. In 1955. when the Democrats regained control of the House, Rayburn and John McCormack pored over the delegation lists for a majority whip. They got only...
...Illinois in 1950, Bridges was furious. "Scott Lucas refused to come to New Hampshire in 1948 and campaign against me," he sputtered. "I'll never go after him, no matter how long I live." Last year, for much the same reasons, Bridges refused requests to take the Texas stump against Lyndon Johnson, then running for Senate re-election even while appearing on the Democratic national ticket as a vice-presidential candidate...
...pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
Although local pollsters and pundits had long since written his political obituaries, New York City's Republican Mayoralty Candidate Louis Lefkowitz refused to play dead. Last week, with the Nov. 7 election against Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner drawing near, Lefkowitz tirelessly continued to stump the city's five boroughs, pleaded his case before doctors and flower merchants, garment makers and university professors...