Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew better than Gonzalez how painful economic reforms could be. Four months ago students, protesting over an increase in bus fares, set off a bloody riot in Santiago. But his whirlwind stump tour had won Gonzalez enough political support to put over the plan. Now his problem would be to hold down prices firmly enough for the plan to work...
...Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly for Dick Welch." In Brooklyn, a trim, earnest party worker named Edna Flannery Kelly, 43, was elected in the normally Democratic, heavily Catholic and Jewish Tenth District...
Quirino's chief opponent was rabble-rousing, Yale-educated José P. Laurel, the islands' puppet President under the Japanese. "If collaboration means helping your people to live and survive," said Laurel on the stump, "I would do it over again." Through the campaign Laurel worked desperately to rid himself of a reputation for being anti-American; he never quite shook it off. He also made much of his personal honesty, which Filipinos accept. But between the Quirino and Laurel machines, Filipinos had a Hobson's choice. No one doubts that Laurel's followers would...
Every night at about 6 p.m., 35 greater Boston students gather in a little office at 333 Washington Street, Boston, to go out on the stump for mayoralty candidate John B. Hynes. The students are from all the schools in the Boston area; and though most of the group are from Boston University and Boston College, a good number come from Harvard and Radcliffe...
...American people elect a President to lead them and work for the good of a great nation of millions of people, or do they elect him to stump various states for the election of favored candidates for Congress...