Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locally for local relief. A non-Government enterprise actively headed by Newton Diehl Baker. This cash drive constitutes the backbone of the President's program for getting the country through the winter and figures conspicuously in the political record on which he seeks reelection. Having promised in his stump speech at Cleveland that no "deserving" citizen shall starve, President Hoover sat down at his Cabinet table and appealed by radio to "the great heart of the American people." He spoke of "a wealth of human sympathy" and "the precious warmth of a friendly hand." He concluded...
...President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery -all arguments the President has repeatedly denied...
...Springfield, Ill. A local plan that Democrat Roosevelt speak at Lincoln's tombset Republicans to screaming "Sacrilege!" Later it was explained that Governor Roosevelt simply wanted to visit this Republican shrine which he had never seen, had not the slightest idea of using it as a political stump. His second major address was scheduled for St. Louis that evening...
...nonelective Cabinet members who could not ask for votes in their own right. All their warm words failed to bring to life the silent, remote figure in Washington. Now, barely a month before the election and with the political tide running against him, he at last took the stump in his own behalf. As he crossed the line into his native Iowa, he thawed to the welcome of friends, recalled the old swimming hole of his childhood, greeted his old schoolmarm (see p. 29). As he journeyed back to Washington he lashed out with new spunk and spirit...
...ulcerated tooth kept Secretary of Agriculture Hyde off the stump. After talking himself hoarse in Connecticut, Secretary of Labor Doak rested up at "Notre Nid" ("Our Nest"), his Potomac home, before invading West Virginia and Illinois. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was to make her single contribution to the Hoover campaign in the form of a speech at Indianapolis in mid-October. Calvin Coolidge, whose Hoover appeals have so far been only in writing, was scheduled to raise his voice for the party in Manhattan Oct. 11. Republican headquarters had 260 volunteer stumpsters of high & low degree to turn loose...