Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veterans of the ist Division (first U. S. troops to go overseas in World War I) met in Los Angeles, took the stump for neutrality. Said one ex-doughboy: "All that we lost in France in 1917 and 1918 was the flower of our manhood and our money . . . it's too late to go back and look for them...
...about a quarter of a mile. Then he dropped from the train and crawled into a weed clump. His foot was a pulp and he was afraid of gangrene. Gritting his teeth, he pulled out his penknife, carefully cut off his foot, twisted his sweater around the stump to stop the bleeding...
...haggard, hot-eyed Bittner, who speaks softly off the stump, heard 856 delegates, claiming to represent 78,000 workers, unanimously vote to strike all Armour plants if the big firm declines to negotiate with the C. I. O. Then he told reporters...
...That when the plough hits a rock or stump the tractor will not tip over backward and fall on its driver like some old-time tractors-it slips its back-wheel drive when an obstruction is encountered, keeps its nose down by pulling with its front wheels only...
...Debt is a very bad word in the folkways. Yet few people realize that if there were no debts there would be no investments, and nothing to be called capitalism.* It is important to keep debt and investment closely associated throughout these hearings. Otherwise you are going to get stump speeches on the horrors of Government debt and the sublimities of private investment. It is equally in order to talk about the virtues of Government investment and dangers of private debt...