Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guernica, a village of 10,000 souls, has a small munitions factory and barracks on its outskirts. Guernica is also the traditional capital of the Basques. To this town Spanish sovereigns, including Ferdinand & Isabella, went to swear by the stump of an ancient oak tree to protect the ancient privileges of the Basque people. The tree of Guernica is prominent on the Basque flag. Basque deputies met biennially in their "Holy City" to legislate...
Franklin Roosevelt, glancing over his morning newspapers one day last week, suddenly frowned in displeasure. He had come upon a report saying that he was planning to stump the country on behalf of his plan to appoint six new members to the Supreme Court. A few minutes later Secretary Steve Early was out handing a bulletin to the press. It denounced the report as "false" and "hostile": the President had no intention of making such a stumping tour...
...Promoter Parker: "The leopard never changes his spots! Once an honest man, always an honest man!" He called the jury's attention to his spotless record on the Tribune. Mr. Parker regards the present-day Tribune as Chicago's greatest liability, once assured a crowd at a stump speech for Presidential Candidate William Lemke that Col. McCormick was both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion in Tribune Lawyer John Martineau who now jumped up in rebuttal to castigate the man who had bearded his boss. "A skunk never...
...named George W. Norris to run against him in the primary. Under such circumstances there is seldom any difficulty for George Norris to convince himself and the voters that every election is a crisis in which sinister interests are striving to do him in. For George Norris on the stump does not shilly-shally about getting himself elected. Last autumn after fumbling for months with the idea of standing for re-election he went to the hustings, made as many as three to five speeches a day, filled about five-sixths of them with praise of Roosevelt as a practical...
...Hearst's Herald & Examiner; only full-sized evening alternative to Colonel Frank Knox's News (circulation: 394,000) is Hearst's American. But Publisher Knox, as he speaks through his paper, has been by no means so violent as Vice-Presidential Nominee Knox speaking from the stump. The News has generally front-paged a boondoggle story, exuded confidence in Republican victory, given Republican campaign news considerably more space than Democratic. But for campaign balance and fairness most observers rate it at Chicago...