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Get on my imaginary cross-country, whistle-stopping train, President Obama, and remind people it was the railroads that fostered the nation's economic progress a century ago.
Murray Fromson: Some Inescapable Truths Murray Fromson 2010
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Get on my imaginary cross-country, whistle-stopping train, President Obama, and remind people it was the railroads that fostered the nation's economic progress a century ago.
Murray Fromson: Some Inescapable Truths Murray Fromson 2010
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Get on my imaginary cross-country, whistle-stopping train, President Obama, and remind people it was the railroads that fostered the nation's economic progress a century ago.
Murray Fromson: Some Inescapable Truths Murray Fromson 2010
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Back in 1948, liberals were excited when President Harry Truman took to whistle-stopping and scorching the "do nothing 80th Congress" run by Republicans.
Ken Blackwell: After the Flotilla Raid, Progressives Show Their True Colors 2010
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What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket").
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While whistle-stopping in Beaucoup, Illinois, the train suddenly lurched forward a few feet.
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Tall and chunky and fifty, Buster was a career comic who played at the fringes of his profession, whistle-stopping to saloons and dinner parties and second tier comedy clubs.
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Tall and chunky and fifty, Buster was a career comic who played at the fringes of his profession, whistle-stopping to saloons and dinner parties and second tier comedy clubs.
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Roosevelt, as we all know, in those days particularly there was a lot of stem-winding speeches and whistle-stopping across the country.
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country� 2004
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He made some, but there was no su -- no whistle-stopping or anything like that.
An Honest President: The Life & Presidencies of Grover Cleveland 2000
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