Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Ohio. So certain seemed the defeat of Dry Republican Senator McCulloch by Wet Democratic Nominee Bulkley that Chairman Fess suddenly dropped his national duties to go home and stump frantically for his colleague...
...sort of campaign footnote to President Hoover's addresses of the week (see above), Vice President Charles Curtis took the stump for some of the speech-making he is not allowed while presiding over the Senate. Opening Delaware's Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
Chairman Nye departed on a vacation to Wisconsin. Nominee McCormick took to the stump with the claim that the Slush Fund Committee episode had won her 50,000 Illinois votes. Whether it had or not, it certainly won her the sympathy of Citizen Calvin Coolidge who said in one of his syndicated articles...
...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...