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...Tennessee, Boss Ed Crump of Memphis likewise was hoping for a medical discharge for an old-line Crumpet, Captain Andrew T. ("Tip") Taylor Jr., 32, wounded in the foot in Italy. Tip Taylor, who has held Crump-given jobs as legislator, judge, minor state officeholder, but is a political unknown, was regarded as likely to be Crumped up for Governor...
...make all east-west streets avenues. Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo doctors, fortune tellers and saloons that Blueswriter W. C. Handy made famous in Beale Street Blues. Last week a counter-reform movement gathered such power that Mayor Walter Chandler, longtime Crumpet, had to take notice. Memphis Negroes couldn't get used to living on Beale Avenue. They wanted to be back on Beale Street, the way the tune says...
...employes from active politicking, last week rammed through the Senate Elections committee a new bill spreading the ban to the 500,000 State employes who are partly paid by the U. S. Government. Squawks came from Indiana's Minton (chum of Paul V. McNutt); from Tennessee's "Crumpet" Stewart (stooge of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump) and Illinois' Lucas (collaborator with Chicago's mayor-Boss Ed Kelly...
Their Majesties sipped tea, last week, in crumpet passing proximity to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. The chat waxed cordial and lasted for two hours. It took place neither at punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that...
...great tact, courage and obstinacy could have consummated this expedition. Ahmed Hassanein was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In this book, which is purged of science, he writes of long fatigues and desperate adventure like a University Fellow .discussing such fantasies over the afternoon crumpet, yet this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers of nomadism. The volume is adorned with many excellent photographs, frontispieced with one of the author...