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Edward Hull Crump has bossed Memphis so long (36 years) that many Memphians hardly know they are being bossed. "See Mr. Crump about it," is a Memphis byword. And Memphis' two newspapers (both Scripps-Howard) rarely ask him a rude question...
...infantile paralysis had cut short his career. He was Businessman Roosevelt then, head of the American Construction Council, which had just sponsored a plan for curtailing credit and deferring new construction to curb runaway building costs. Recalling how " 'See young Roosevelt about it had once been a byword in Washington," TIME called him "a leading citizen ever since he took office as President of the Harvard Crimson...
...Union payroll. Often trapped, he invariably escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...
...Chinese also look for great coal resources. Copper, critically deficient in the interior, is in Sinkiang; so are iron, molybdenum and other ores. Sinkiang's succulent fruits and melons are a byword in Asia. Its superb cotton, its magnificent horses are all of matchless quality. But peasant immigration must be limited to water resources-three or four millions is probably the maximum total of agricultural pioneers...
...whose name is a romantic byword wherever sulkymen gather, it was no comeback. This year's Hambletonian was the fourth he had won since the classic got under way in 1926 (no other driver has won more than twice) when Mr. Ben was a stripling of 53. It was the second Hambletonian he had snatched with his gnarled, gentle hands in two years of racing. For age and longtime performance, U.S. sport had never seen his equal...