Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...
When Roman Catholic churchmen take part in worldly affairs they usually do so unobtrusively, reversing the tactics used such persons as Los Angeles' loud Methodist "Bob" Shuler on the radio and Virginia's astute Methodist James Cannon Jr. on the stump and in the newspapers. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit is a blaring Roman Catholic exception. His voice as blatant as Preacher Shuler's, his words as un-clerical as Bishop Cannon's, he is known to large sections of the U.S. as a rousing, throbbing radiorator on the "Catholic Charrch" and, more lately...
...chiefly as authoress of some twenty-odd books, of which Miss Lulu Bett is most famed (her dramatization of it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with many a past and present protege (David Gordian, Anzia Yezierska, the late Margery Latimer Toomer et al.). Other books: Birth, Friendship Village, Bridal Pond, Portage, Wisconsin, and Other Essays...
Then came instructions to put the money in a stump beside a road in Roanoke's outskirts...
Chief Robert C. Johnson and Officer Howard Ferguson of the Roanoke police stood secret watch near the stump, ceaselessly for six days & nights. They saw nothing. When they withdrew and Chief Johnson communicated with the extortionists, via the stump, as "John J. Jones," agent for Col. Lindbergh, answers came. By bargaining the tribute was cut from $50,000 to $25,000, to $17,000. A check for the latter amount was finally left in the stump and next day Joe Bryant presented it for payment at the Roanoke bank designated. His story when arrested was that he had "just happened...