Word: crumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richardson & Mr. Crump...
...Boss Crump, hurt by such ingratitude, but nonetheless magnanimous, wrote to the Press-Scimitar in the pained accents of a misunderstood father...
Edward Hull Crump has bossed Memphis so long (36 years) that many Memphians hardly know they are being bossed. "See Mr. Crump about it," is a Memphis byword. And Memphis' two newspapers (both Scripps-Howard) rarely ask him a rude question...
...last week there was one piece in the paper which made Boss Crump's bushy eyebrows rise. It was a letter to the editor of the Press-Scimitar, written by Wisconsin-born Mrs. Lee Richardson, wife of a railroad worker, mother of four sons, a Memphian for eight years. Wrote House-wife-Citizen Richardson : "I am not satisfied here, have never been. Those who do not approve of conditions here are advised to keep their mouths shut. From where I stand it seems that those who kept their mouths shut are to blame for the shameful conditions here...
...added: "I hear said, 'But look what Crump has done for us. All the nice parks.' Other cities and states have parks without the help of Crump and the poll tax. Other states have fine schools where a splendid education is offered without a politician being mentioned. . . . Missouri rid itself of Pendergast. Why can't the same thing be done here...