Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best proof that campaigns have their uses was the fact that few candidates had ever dared to ignore them. As long as one party was on the stump, the opposition could not afford to be silent. Even Franklin Roosevelt, confident as ever in 1944, became so alarmed by the possible inroads of the Dewey attack, and the whispers about his health, that he hustled out of Washington for his famed 51-mile ride through New York City in a drenching October rain...
Contemplating all this, the cynical wondered if Earl wasn't booby-trapping himself. His nephew Russell had been left a priceless heritage: he looked and acted like Huey. The sight of Russell up on the stump "just like his daddy" stirred the faithful as Earl could never stir them; Russell had gotten more applause than Earl at Earl's own inauguration. Moreover, Russell was smart, personable, well-educated and had a good war record. He was a comer...
...Truman, Tobin meant votes. Tobin was Irish, a Catholic, popular in New England, strongly supported by labor. He is an able campaigner. Truman badly needed Cabinet members who were willing & able to get out and stump for him this fall. With the Labor Department shorn of most of its functions by Congress, Secretary Tobin will have little else...
...drove his black Offenhauser up alongside him, stomped on the foot-throttle and seemed about to pass. And each time in turn he eased off, slid back into the second slot again. At the race's end, he was still second man. When Schindler pulled up, swung the stump of his left leg over the side and reached for his crutches, his fans showed their disappointment, but Bronco Bill did not. "There was oil on that track," he explained. "I might have skidded right into heaven...
Louis St. Laurent, to stump against Duplessis. And what was the result...