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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unique among U. S. municipal political bosses is white-haired, jaunty Edward Hull Crump of Memphis. Tenn. Boss Crump has controlled all the elective offices in Tennessee's biggest city for the past 30 years. With some 60,000 votes, more than a quarter of the State's total, to rely on, he has been able to decide any Tennessee election in which the State was not solidly against him. In over 60 city and State elections, his machine has never been defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Crimp in Crump | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Paul W. Cherington; Bayard S. Clark; Eugene V. Clark; Paul C. Clough; Gaston Coblentz; Usher P. Coolidge; Alexander R. Cowper; John E. Crane; Joseph R. Crump; William N. Dale; Vinton A. Dearing; Joseph J. Dodge; Edmund J. Doering, 2d.; James R. Dowd; Herbert M. Dowsett, Jr.; Charles A. Dulles; Charles E. Ennis; John J. Fernsler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Bachman's Wake | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Harvard summary: Gordon, g; Scofield, Mixter, p; Blotner, cp; Lewis, Behr, (Wilcox,) ld; Wilcox, Greble, 2d; Doughty, c; Greene, White, 1a; Halstead, Crump, 2a; Willard,Banning, oh; Dole, Van Horne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hampshire Defeats '40 Lacrosse Team by 5-4 Score | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

Penalties: Van Horne 2, Crump, Blotner, Greene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hampshire Defeats '40 Lacrosse Team by 5-4 Score | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

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