Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stump Mr. Legge had been dramatically aggressive on future wheat plantings because the new Board had no precedents to bother about. Over his head hung no 275.000,000 bu. (the Board's July 1 figure) of wheat "stabilized" on Government funds. He was almost a free agent...
...Reading voters put into office a thoroughgoing Socialist Government headed by tall, handsome native-born Mayor John Henry Stump. By trade a cigarmaker, by conviction a Socialist, he had served a dozen years as business man ager of the weekly Labor Advocate...
...Stump administration has adopted none of the orthodox methods of unemployment relief, claiming the problem was national, not local. It has refused to inaugurate an emergency construction program on the ground that it would only tax the poor. Its $450,000 community chest was exhausted last November. It has claimed credit for relief furnished by the non-Socialist school board which is outside its control...
Last week jobless hundreds, led by Reds, paraded to the City Hall, demanded municipal relief from Mayor Stump. They asked that everybody in town be given $15 per week plus $2 per week per dependent plus free rent, free gas, free electricity. Funds, they thought, might be raised by a local tax on incomes of $5.000 and up. Mayor Stump ushered the leaders into his office, where they harangued him thus: ". . . You who call yourself a Socialist, must realize the workers are creators of all commodities and yet the workers are starving...
...best Mayor Stump could offer the Reds was the use of the municipal auditorium where they gathered to denounce...