Word: stumpsters
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Boston, Stumpster Smith was given a popular reception hardly less warm than the one he received there two years ago as a White House candidate. In the Arena 12,000 excited men and women yelled and screamed a five-minute welcome to him. His speech was another running fusillade of political criticism, with the speaker taking aim as of old with his phrases "Listen to this. . . . Well, what happened? . . . That's history now. . . . Here's the record. . . . Here's a warm one. . . ." President Hoover was his main target. The house roared with joy when he asked: "Where...
...Texas last week held their run-off primary to nominate a governor. The candidates: Ross Shaw ("Big Fat Boy") Sterling, wealthy publisher of the Houston Post Dispatch (circulation: 69,000), chairman of the State Highway Commission; and Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, onetime (1925-1927) governor. No. 1 Sterling stumpster: Governor Dan Moody. No. 1 Ferguson stumpster: Husband James E. ("Farmer Jim") Ferguson, removed by impeachment from the governorship in 1917. The issues: "Fergusonism"; "Common People" v. "Millionaires." Never before had Texas been through such a bitter personal campaign as followed the first primary a month ago when Mrs. Ferguson...
...clock of a rainy evening. Mr. Morrow's blue-grey suit looked mussed and wrinkled after an all-day auto tour among Jersey voters. In his hand he held a manuscript, his first campaign speech, from which he was about to read. No hard-boiled political stumpster, he seemed shy and nervous before the 2,000 clerks, farmers, Negroes, laborers, socialites - Republican voters all - who packed the hall. A swift smile from Mrs. Morrow who sat in a box with Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn gave him encouragement. As the din of sirens and noise makers died, Mr. Morrow...
...though ten months must elapse before it comes into legislative being. Primaries to nominate candidates for the November elections have commenced, will continue until mid-September. In many a State last week could be seen the hustle and bustle of campaigning, could be heard the strident cry of the stumpster pleading for votes. Of prime importance to President Hoover were these makings of the new Congress. The voting would be the first widespread register of public opinion on his administration. Last week two primaries were held...