Word: crumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "Sleepy Tom" Stewart had done any wrong. Like Tennessee's other Senator, choleric old Kenneth McKellar, he knew where Mister Crump stood on most issues and acted accordingly. When anybody, anywhere, took Mister Crump's name in vain, Tom Stewart was likely to rise up on the Senate floor to defend "the South's greatest leader...
...Boss Ed Crump of Memphis planned to provide Tennessee with a new U.S. Senator next year. Toward this end, Mister Crump last week formally and cynically gave the boot to his servile servant, Senator Tom Stewart...
...Memphis, Mayor James J. Pleasants Jr. bent a dutiful ear toward Boss Crump, announced that the Negro and white races would have to see the Freedom Train separately. Freedom Train officials canceled the stop. But Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield refused to sanction such segregation: "I do not see how anybody can draw a color line through freedom and justice...
...Crump, snowcapped political boss of Tennessee, paused in a blast at Communism to explain himself: "I detest red . . . my hair was red for many years. I was kind to it, kept it trimmed and perfumed, slept with it, always had it on top. Yet, with all my kindness, love and affection for it, it deserted me-turned . . . traitor. It is now as white as the peaks of Mt. McKinley...
Married. Betty McLean Crump, 21, pretty granddaughter of Memphis' longtime political boss; and Frank Pidgeon Jr., 27, well-heeled son of a Tennessee ironmaker; in Memphis...