Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie, asked to back the bill, threatened to take the stump across the country against it unless it was modified...
...Italian doctor told Correspondent Whitaker about a peasant boy whose feet and hands had been amputated after frostbite in Albania. No winter equipment had been provided for the Army. The boy raised the stump of his arm and screamed: "We're going to kill Mussolini, the murderer." Whitaker heard another story of a wounded man who rose from his cot in an Albanian hospital and spat in the face of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Ciano...
...inspiring message in more than 500 of them. Some of these districts are high in the mountains, and he had to travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would tell cheering crowds not to get enthusiastic, would say: "Watch the pot on your own stove." If conditions got better, keep Muñoz Marin and his party...
Next speaker to take the stump was sleepy-eyed Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye himself. Said he: "Should the United States refuse to understand the real intention of Japan, Germany and Italy, and persist in challenging them in the belief that the pact among them represents a hostile action, there will be no other course open to them than...
...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...