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...Tommy Crump was a sergeant in the Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1865 he enrolled in Seabury Divinity School in Faribault (pronounced Farribo), Minn., but a stoutly martial heart still beat beneath his cloth. Observing that the boys in the preparatory department of the Divinity School were undisciplined, Tommy Crump took to drilling them in the afternoons, using sticks as muskets, into the first cadet corps in any secondary school in the U. S. Minnesota's Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular...
...minute last January, Boss Edward Hull Crump was Mayor of Memphis, Tenn. His sole official act was to cancel his city's invitation to the American Newspaper Guild to hold its seventh annual convention in Memphis. Said Boss Crump: "You will not be welcome...
Last week, nevertheless, 150 Guild delegates met in Memphis without Boss Crump's blessing. Chief issue before them was a factional fight over the re-election of a small group of Manhattan executives (including Vice President Milton Kaufman, Secretary & Treasurer Victor Pasche, both paid officials, and Vice President Morris Watson, paid by C. I. O. as a union organizer) who actually run the Guild. Back of this factional fight was a bitter controversy...
Author of these Memphis blues was Ed Crump's new Police and Fire Commissioner Joe Boyle. Joe Boyle is pious, thorough, as independent as a hog on Mr. Crump's ice can be. "Boyle on the neck," his policemen call him. "Holy Joe." under-worldlings snort. "We are just enforcing the law," snaps Joe Boyle...
Astounded Memphians looked around for other reasons. Silvery Ed Crump is aging (64), weary, saddened by the recent deaths of his mother and one of his sons, anxious to be remembered as the good boss of a good town. Shriners, and American Newspaper Guildsmen (whom Mr. Crump testily invited to stay away), are to convene in Memphis this summer; the Boss presumably would rather bore the delegates than have them spread discreditable tales about Memphis morals...