Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toadsuck. About the country Governor Murray continued to stump, stirring rural multitudes with speech after speech...
Senator Cutting: I asked for an answer and you give me a stump speech...
Secretary Hurley (shouting) : Of course it's a stump speech if I say anything but it would be the height of statesmanship if it were made by a Senator...
...State Highway Commission and lifelong Long man. A country boy who taught school, ran a saw mill, took up politics, Mr. Allen hunts duck, fishes, says little, likes to stay at home. A Long boast: "I can sell anybody anything." During the primary campaign Governor Long took the stump for Mr. Allen, made good his boast by selling his candidate to Louisiana's voters over four ineffectual opponents...
...Democrat for the State Senate in the Hyde Park district. Because the 26th district had, with one exception, been doggedly Republican since the Civil War, he appeared to have a poor chance of winning. This chance seemed to be materially reduced when he set out to stump his rural constituency in a chicken-killing, dust-raising automobile. But the farmers liked his engaging smile, his direct easy way of talking. As much to his surprise as to anyone else's he was elected...