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...Crump can go and catch hisself some...
...Crump, the 73-year-old monarch of Memphis, once boasted: "I've never been beaten in any election I ever took part in, even when it was running for captain of the baseball team in school." Since 1928, when his candidate for governor lost out in the primary, Ed Crump had always made good on his boast. Last week, he was trying to swallow...
...Cordell Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
...RedHaired Wife." Most Tennesseans knew that Estes Kefauver was no more a Communist than Ed Crump himself. They liked his showmanship and the way he stayed un-Crumpled. When he invaded Memphis he wore a coonskin cap, drew big crowds. Trumpeted his followers: "If there is anything red about him it is his red-blooded Americanism and his beautiful red-haired wife...
...anti-Crumpet had the open backing of many business and professional men. The politicians now thought that he had a fighting chance to win the primary on Aug. 5. Win or lose, they agreed that he was the first man in a long time who had given Ed Crump a good scare...