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When Edward Hull Crump was mayor of Memphis 30 years ago, he clinched his grip on Memphis' heartstrings by refusing to enforce State Prohibition. During World War I, when the Army demanded abolition of the red-light district, the trulls quietly packed up and moved their business to shuttered houses on South Main Street, Vance Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town...
...civic reforms has hoary Memphis seen under the rule of the "Red Snapper," Boss Crump. One was to 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...
...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...
Boss Edward Hull Crump, of Memphis, Tenn.. once offered to guarantee a bright young Washington attorney a handsome law practice if he would settle in Mistuh Crump's town. All the lawyer had to promise in return was to develop an intelligent, invigorating opposition to the all-powerful Crump political organization. Nothing came of this ingenious idea for keeping the Crumpets in fighting trim, so Ed Crump had to go on putting up with Tom Collier...
...Collier is as well known in Memphis as Ed Crump himself. He acquired his pronounced dislike for the Crump machine from his daddy, a white-bearded Confederate veteran who owned valuable property in Memphis and refused to pay taxes to Crump collectors. Tom Collier, who is a lawyer by avocation, devoted years to not paying taxes, finally lost much of his family's rich inheritance after 32 years of litigation and 750 tax suits. Between times he kept in trim by running barefoot in the early morning, accommodated the local photographers with outlandish poses (see cut), regularly...