Word: bossdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result of this system is that in 30 years of bossdom Edward Crump has had a record of 60 electoral victories, no defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic primary in Tennessee where a Democratic nomination is as good as an election...
...Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate...