Word: crumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer as the "wife of the world's largest date merchant," she said: "I just helped Mr. Insull while he was old, sick, hunted and deserted." Said Mr. Insull: "Mme Coyimzoglu is, as I have always said, a very fine woman." Romping backstage in Memphis, cubbish Bob Crump, son of the city's Democratic Boss Edward Hull ("Ed") Crump, squirted soda-pop over Helen Morgan's white organdie Scandals costume. Irked, Torchsinger Morgan retaliated with a stiff right to the mouth...
...Look Now (by John Crump; Gustav Blum, producer). Author Crump's last effort produced on Broadway was a play called Hipper's Holiday, which lasted four performances. Having doubtless observed that Once in a Lifetime, Twentieth Century, Personal Appearance and Boy Meets Girl, which dealt laughably with the foibles of Hollywood, were well received, Mr. Crump has written a play about a heavily-accented cinemagnate who gets into great and voluble trouble because his blonde star skips out in the middle of a picture, leaving him with a "nut" (overhead...
...that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion the impact of the machine on Negro labor, advocated sinking the picker in the Mississippi River, together with its plans and specifications. In Tennessee, which still has antiEvolution laws on its books. Democratic National Committeeman Edward Hull Crump, boss of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), predicted that an anti-Picker statute could be passed in his State...
...ability of Boss Crump to achieve his political ends became apparent last week. His friend Senator McKellar and others who value Boss Crump's votes failed to put up a real fight for Candidate Dossett. In Shelby County the vote was: Browning 60,302; Dossett 872. When the ballots were counted in Tennessee, Candidate Browning had won the Democratic nomination by better than...
...Negro William Christopher Handy, "Father of the Blues," was hired to write a song booming the first Crump mayoral campaign (TIME...