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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...
...Boss Crump's power in Tennessee was never more convincingly demonstrated than a year ago when his candidate for Governor, Gordon Browning, won the Democratic primary by a 2 to 1 majority, carrying Memphis' Shelby County by 60,208 to his opponent's 881. It was never more seriously threatened than it was last week by the same Gordon Browning. In Nashville, a special session of the Legislature passed a bill to put Tennessee primaries on a county-unit basis like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes...
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...
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...
Penalties: Van Horne 2, Crump, Blotner, Greene...