Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state inaugurals, voters repaired to their capitols to hear and see the men on whom they had staked their hopes of a change for the better. They beheld new faces not nearly so handsome as the campaign posters, heard voices containing much less self-assurance than on the stump...
...covered when people,--the ordinary workers and business people of our blind nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting work of reconstruction proceed. --The Dartmouth...
...pluck out and re-examine as the most authentic and complete summation of the Democratic case last week's radio speech by Virginia's testy little Senator Carter Glass. The 74-year-old Lynchburg publisher got out of a sick bed to answer President Hoover's stump speeches. Senator Glass is a political snapping turtle but no Republican has dared call the "Father of the Federal Reserve" a "wild...
...political affairs at the White House last week as President Hoover pressed to a climax his campaign for reelection. For long hours he withdrew from the bustle of his regular office for the quiet of the Lincoln Study where he worked over his Indianapolis and New York stump speeches. One Cabinet meeting instead of two was held during the week and then with only half of the members present and all the discussion on campaign strategy. Most White House callers were G. O. Partisans with words of advice, good cheer or hope. Eva and Danny, two elephants borrowed from...
...open secret that Speaker Garner has been kept muzzled by his Democratic managers for discretion's sake. Told off to chaperon him was able, tactful Charles Hand, longtime secretary to indiscreet James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Unlike Vice President Curtis, the Democratic Nominee has not been allowed to stump the small time political circuits. While the Speaker was silent his rule of the House was built up by G. O. Partisans into a major campaign issue. Again & again President Hoover pointed to it with shuddering alarm as the kind of thing of which the country could expect a lot more...