Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippines. They thought they needed him to counteract Democratic use of a Republican name. Cable grams passed between Washington and Manila. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose dislike for the Democratic Frank lin is intensely real, implored her half-brother to return from his provincial post and take the stump. As she had helped to get him his job, her words carried weight. A vice-governor was appointed to carry on while "Teddy" was fighting "Frank" on the mainland. Though represented as extremely reluctant to leave Manila, Governor General Roosevelt an nounced Aug. 22: "Circumstances have made it necessary...
...example of political mismanagement, this year's Democratic presidential nominee rejected all requests to open his canvass in California during August. He refused to jeopardize his middling good chance to carry the State by becoming embroiled in a local contest. From Albany last week he announced that he would stump California?but not until late September when the primary is but a memory...
...Midwest, Secretary of War Hurley, dapper and dashing, went to Columbus, Ohio last week to address the Republican State Convention. His speech, like Secretary Mills' in Boston fortnight ago, was a master text, hall-marked by the White House for lesser G. 0. Partisans to echo on the stump. Loud of voice, wide of gesture, Secretary Hurley demonstrated the approved party method of defending President Hoover and attacking Governor Roosevelt. Excerpts...
...vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator of his estate. As president...
...home is at Ozark, Ala. where, a power in local Democracy, he is in considerable demand as a public speaker. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...