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...primary season was-on the basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...
...fight of Governor Gordon Browning and Senator George L. Berry for renomination had been a Democratic battle royal with no holds barred, for out to break them was another tough political alliance consisting of Memphis' potent Boss Ed Crump and Tennessee's other Senator, bumbling Kenneth McKellar. Boss Crump had tuned up his machine (accustomed to turning out a net majority of 70,000 for his candidates), and Senator McKellar swung in his Federal patronage for their candidates (Prentice Cooper for Governor, Tom Stewart* for Senator). So Messrs. Browning and Berry, fighting for their political lives with...
Governor Gordon Browning of Tennessee is not popular in Memphis because, after accepting the election support of Boss Ed Crump, he turned his back on that Democratic mastermind. One friend Governor Browning has in Memphis is Lawyer Ben W. Kohn, nowadays working hard for Mr. Browning's renomination in the August primary...
Sheriff Guy Joiner of Boss Crump's Shelby County made a face. "Should these so-called State police show up in this county carrying pistols," said he, "I'll put every one of 'em in jail...
...named as permanent collectors are: William F. Pennebaker '40, Leverett House; Robert A. Krancer '40, Eliot House; John L. Donnell '40, Winthrop House; Joel C. Goldthwait '40, Dunster House; Francis D. Miller '40, Adams House; William C. Hurtt '40, Kirkland House; Joseph R. Crump '40, Lowell House; and Roger S. Schafer '41, Freshman Dalls...