Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus could hurt Kennedy if he should sit on his hands-and so far he is sitting. South Carolina's fledgling Republicans are dreamily hoping for a Nixon victory because of South Carolina's wide respect for conservative Republican Barry Goldwater, who will stump the state for Nixon. Mississippi, which once had a lethargic "black and tan" Republican organization, now has an energetic white party and big hopes; G.O.P. prospects are better in Mississippi than ever before-but not yet good enough...
...Stanton stood for Congress in 1866, received a discouraging 24 votes. The first woman to win a national office was Montana's Republican Representative Jeanette Rankin, who took her seat four years before the 19th Amendment was passed. Crowed an elated suffragette: "Jeanette is the best stump speaker in Montana, can dance like a boarding-school girl, and, believe me, she will lead those Congressmen a merry little two-step when she comes to Washington!" But Pacifist Rankin's unique distinction in Congress is the fact that, in her two widely separated terms, she was the only member...
...involvement for the next few months will be with the 1960 presidential campaign, and, as always, he is facing the stump with a two-edged adz. "It's all over but the doubting," says Mort Sahl. "My considered opinion of Nixon versus Kennedy is that neither...
...Democratic Congressman Quentin Burdick-were all but lost in the throng of their supporting casts. Jack Kennedy and Stu Symington got out of town as Nixon arrived, and Nelson Rockefeller, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and Senate Campaign Director Barry Goldwater have all taken their turns on the stump...
...Representatives) and Spinster Cormier have much in common. In a state that was long a fortress of rock-ribbed conservatism, both have earned reputations as "liberals," have won broad labor support. Both prefer to ring bells and shake hands on street corners than to get up on the stump. Both are fiercely independent; e.g., Senator Smith denounced Joe McCarthy in his heyday, later bucked the Administration by voting against the confirmation of Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, last time ran with little support from Maine's Republican organization...