Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paint. It looked like rain. Two raincoats were put aboard his private car for rear platform appearances. Ahead of the special ran a pilot locomotive over rails carefully inspected a few hours before, over switches spiked down hard. In his car Candidate Hoover touched up his first full-length stump speech which was to open his campaign at Des Moines...
Foremost campaigner for the President was short, ruddy, big-nosed Ogden Livingston Mills. As Secretary of the Treasury he had lived, slept and slaved with the Hoover reconstruction program since its inception last year. Its details he knew by rote. On the stump he became its greatest expounder and expositor...
...heckled. He had one standard speech for delivery everywhere. Excerpt: "After every great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead of the private railroad...
After turning Louisiana over to Governor Allen, Senator Long was again delayed in getting on the national stump. Senator-reject Broussard had started a court contest against his successful opponent. Huey Long, smart lawyer who took a three-year course at Tulane in one, decided to postpone his departure until after the court hearing Oct. 5. Then, he said, he would "tell 'em plenty...
...Edward G. Robinson is a Portuguese captain who saves Richard Arlen from the sharks, loses a hand to them, is married by Zita Johann for gratitude, not for love. When he finds that Arlen, his best friend, is in love with his wife, he bashes him with his hooked stump and throws him to the sharks, himself falls to them and dies of the attentions of a shark that crawls up his back as he is pulled back into the boat...