Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...
Helpmates. The Roosevelt campaign was by no means being carried along by the nominee alone. Already on the stump or itching to take it was an assorted chorus of vociferous henchmen the like of which was nowhere to be seen on the G. 0. P. battlefront. That no Republican was alert enough to bunch these Democratic helpmates?by no means the cream of the party?and point with alarm to them as the ''men behind Roosevelt," was viewed as a reflection upon the intelligence of the Hoover managers...
...primary retired Senator Broussard. Long foe, and nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
...speech. Election returns that year amply proved this good Republican strategy and up to last week President Hoover had cast his 1932 campaign in practically the same mold. He refused to appear conscious that he had a man named Franklin Delano Roosevelt running against him. Declining to take the stump, he appeared to set the Presidency above partisanship. Instead of advertising his adversary by hand-to-hand combat, he advertised his relief program by intense activity at the White House...
...Illinois such an exhibition could mean but one thing. William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was on the loose again. Kicked out of Chicago's mayoralty last year. Big Bill the Builder, brassiest showman out of show business, had taken the stump once more. No candidate himself, he was urging the re-election of twotime (1921-29) Governor Lennington Small. the character who was indicted, tried and made to disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates...