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...years in politics, Memphis' white-haired, 71-year-old Boss Ed Crump has toiled unselfishly to guide his subjects safely past life's pitfalls. He has discouraged the use of profanity, urged Memphians to love birds and mow their lawns, has sternly forbidden gambling, the blowing of automobile horns, and that ultimate folly -the election of candidates who have not received his blessing. Last week he prepared to defend his people against another dangerous institution-books...
...Memphis' Democratic Boss Ed Crump: "The Party is better off without those wild-eyed crackpots...
...other words: Please, Boss Crump, tell us whom you'll let be mayor next...
...nosed Kenneth D. McKellar, premier porkbarreler and 77-year-old dean of the U.S. Senate, won renomination over Edward W. Carmack Jr., endorsed by C.I.O. and the Nashville Tennessean. Neither McKellar nor renominated Governor Jim McCord needed the usual thumping 40,000 majority delivered by Boss E. H. Crump's Shelby County machine, but they got it anyhow. McKellar also swept bloody McMinn County...
...Hitler was a dictator, yes, but Crump makes his fawning, obsequious satellites like it! Can it be that there are no good red-blooded Irish-Americans in Memphis who will vote No for no other reason than that they were told to vote...