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Nathan Lynn Bachman, junior Senator from Tennessee who died of heart disease in Washington (TIME, May 3), was last week laid to rest in his native Chattanooga. His funeral was attended by a host of friends from Washington and all over Tennessee. The assemblage was not only sorrowful. It had some of the exhilaration of an oldtime Irish wake, and the chief intoxicant was politics. In hotel lobbies, even in the church, mourners peered at their fellows and whispered in little groups. "Who is So-&-So backing?" "There's Such-&-Such-what does he want?" The Chattanooga News with...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...
...whom almost tore his coat off, and sped to the Wrhite House. There the President, in the midst of preparations for departure (see p. 15), kept him waiting two and a half hours. Afterwards Governor Browning refused flatly to tell what the President had said, but newshawks guessed: Senator Bachman had opposed the President's Supreme Court proposal and the President wanted a loyal New Dealer who would give him another vote on that issue. When Governor Browning left the White House his troubles were not over. At his hotel he found many messages. A big batch of them...
Died. Nathan Lynn Bachman, 58, Tennessee's junior Democratic Senator, appointed in 1933 when Cordell Hull was drafted for the Cabinet and twice reelected, onetime (1918-24) Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court; of heart disease; in Washington. He played football nine seasons at Southwestern (Presbyterian), Washington & Lee and Central universities, joked that he had been expelled from all three...
...Game Commission at Nashville until the day of the hunt. The first 100 applicants to send in a special $5 fee (for cost of attending doctors, nurses and ambulance) will be accepted. Among 25 who had paid last week were Tennessee's newly-reelected Senator Nathan Lynn ("Nate") Bachman, Federal Judge George Caldwell Taylor of Knoxville, Mrs. William Stanley, 30-year-old wife of a University of Tennessee entomologist. Participants must also possess a State hunting license (resident $2, nonresident $15), may bag one boar each. No pigstickers, the Tennessee huntsmen may carry rifles of .25 calibre...