Word: crumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Challenge to Boss Crump...
...Tennessee Governor last week went the name of a hillbilly minstrel, Roy Acuff, 40, of Nashville. Fiddler Acuff insisted that his friends had put in his name, that he was still undecided whether to run. He thereupon resumed his fiddling, while his friends hoped that Memphis' Boss Ed Crump burned...
...Smoky Mountain Boys are known in every village town hall and crossroads school in Tennessee. Hundreds of admirers flow into Nashville to attend his Saturday-night NBC broadcast ; thousands listen to his nasal singing. And if Acuff can transfer his popularity to politics, he may yet give Crump the Memphis Blues...
...Democratic primary election is not until Aug. 3 of next year, so Acuff will have time to decide whether he wants to trade a reported $50,000 annual income for a $4,000-a-year Governorship. And Red Snapper Crump will have time to fish up another candidate. His present stooge in the Governorship, dull, nervous little Prentice Cooper, will be finishing a third term and ineligible for reelection. Smart Hillbilly Acuff, whose political ambitions may well hinge on their publicity value to him, said only "I know I'm a good fiddler-but I don't know...