Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had definite ideas on the best way to cure warts. Tom favored "spunk-water" (rain water in a rotten tree stump). One of Huck's favorite prescriptions required a dead cat: "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three . . . and when they're taking the feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow...
This week he hustled back to stump in Ohio industrial cities (among them: Dayton, Toledo, Akron, Cleveland). Senator Taft, hurriedly canceling other plans, sped out to Ohio. The Senator had his gloves off. "Mr. Stassen," he cried, "could have been elected Senator two years ago and been in Washington to help us Republicans do our job. It would have been easy. He chose instead to spend two years running for the presidency." From now on, the going would be rough...
...Council should encourage intelligent campaigning, which can be easily carried on within the present limit on expenses. The Council should also urge that the friends of qualified men run such campaigns, since many excellent candidates are reluctant to go out and stump for votes. It is vitally important to stir up student interest in the Council, and to get the best men in office through sensible and thorough campaigns. Electioneering is surely worth a test; the tacit policy of leaving the voter alone has been tried and found distinctly wanting...
John K. Lally '49, chairman of the Council parking committee, will continue to stump for the field, which a large number of students backed in a poll...
Seldom before had the 158-year-old procedure of congressional investigation come under such hot fire. From the Left, in utterances ranging from stump speeches to paid newspaper ads, came the standard cries: "Un-American," "unconstitutional," etc., etc. None howled more loudly than the witness, identified as a card-carrying Communist, who refused to testify this week...