Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headquarters. Party leaders in Washington supply the campaign words-&-music which candidates repeat on the stump throughout the land. Chief Republican composer: James L. West, director of publicity. Chief Democratic composer: Charles Michelson, director of publicity. They write the statements that are issued under the names of party leaders. So sharp have been Composer Michelson's attacks on President Hoover that last week Chairman William Robert Wood of the Republican Congressional Campaign cried out in hurt protest, charged the Democrats and Mr. Michelson with a "plot" to slander the President and undermine his influence. The Democratic New York World...
...pressure of a mania growing until it makes the whale itself a Lilliputian thing, a mental cosine, is not managed, but Barrymore again makes a living character of Ahab. Triumphantly drunk, he swaggers through the wharfside brothels of the whaling town. There is a scene in which the stump of his bitten leg is seared with a hot iron and a closeup of him finally cutting his vengeance out of the whale that took the leg. Other great shots: the shanghaied crew of murderers; enlarged projections of the whaler under full sail in a choppy sea, wild-eyed Ahab battling...
...wheat surplus last week continued to brew strong politics. Republican Senators criticized the board for its "do-nothing" policy. There was talk that Senator Borah of Idaho who last week was ordered to northern Maine for a month's rest by his physician would take the stump this autumn in the North-west against the farm board and the Administration's farm relief program, in bitter contrast to his 1928 campaigning for Herbert Hoover. The acreage-reduction scheme was belittled on the ground that a smaller crop at a higher price wo'uld not put more money...
...Stump Jump Ploughs
...Australia shall reverse her unfavorable trade balance, cut down her spending and resultant borrowing abroad, and rescue the Australian worker from unemployment by forcing the creation of new home industries. Australians shall raise birdseed, crush peanuts into butter, perfect their imitations of Champagne, build snorting locomotives, and jump homemade Stump Jump Plows...