Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading hatred of the Rebels, "waving the bloody shirt" from every political stump as it packed Congress with its members, dictated pension legislation almost at will. It had already helped put fellow-members Grant, Hayes and Garfield into the White House, was still to put General Harrison and Major McKinley there...
...Depression impact of public hostility. Even after a revolt of the membership boosted Charles R. Gay into presidency of the Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought & paid for, seemed to many an oldster on the Floor to be no less shocking than the idea of an advertising campaign in behalf of the Union Club...
...year-old Spanish-American from Taos, N. Mex. named Patrocino Barela, with an instinctive talent for wood carving. He presented a number of bultos, which are Southwestern religious carvings, each whittled from a single block of wood. To the most ambitious of these, a 14-in. stump of native pine carved into simplified interlocking trees and figures representing the Hope or Four Stages of Man, Whittler Barela appended his own explanation...
...Manhattan, Jesse Owens announced that he was ready to stump for Alf M. Landon, was quoted as saying: "This country was built on the sweat and blood of the Negro race and this fact hasn't yet been recognized. I believe Governor Landon will recognize it. . . . His election will be good for America and for the people of the colored race. . . . I want to meet Governor Landon personally." Shocked at Owens' ingratitude were Democrats. At Ohio State, Jesse Owens has been drawing $3 per day since February 1935 as a non-working page in the Democratic Legislature...
...Telephoned Herbert Hoover at Stanford University and got his promise to take the stump...