Word: stumpsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Treasury Mills, No. 1 Hoover stumpster. procured an advance press copy of the Glass speech, engaged radio time immediately following to make a partisan retort. Hearing of this Senator Glass concluded his speech by declaring that Secretary Mills had obtained his copy "by some means which involves a breach of confidence disdained by every honorable newspaper man," and adding...
...Secretary of the Treasury Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
...election of Roosevelt and Garner." Few days later Citizen Smith again mentioned Roosevelt & Garner, briefly as possible and at the very end of a long speech delivered in Newark chiefly to help out Boss Frank Hague whose New Jersey votes stood by him at the Chicago convention. Stumpster Smith began by expressing his regret that he could not speak in Connecticut for Candidate Cross, in Illinois for Candidate Horner. Then when Smith shouted in oldtime style, "Now we'll go after them," the cheering, laughing crowd knew what to expect. They got it. Out of four years of bitterness...
Doak v. Norris. As a Roosevelt stumpster Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...
...President's right to claim credit for all House legislation as part of his recovery program while damning defeated measures as the Democratic program, was vigorously challenged by Stumpster Garner who concluded...