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...city power commission and National Power & Light Co. for the city's purchase of Memphis Power & Light Co., for which Mayor Watkins Overton has offered $13,500,000, were taken out of the mayor's hands by an intransigent bloc of commissioners steered by Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Unless M. P. & L. cut its price for the electric system and agreed to cut gas rates as well, ultimatumed Boss Crump's men, "we are going to build...
...Berry big speech a candidates began, "The question is Tobey or not Tobin'. One of the audience shouted back, 'Lemke out of here. Van Nuys is as bad as another.' The speaker yelled, "I Sawyer first and if you don't Pepper up I'll Clark you on the Crump...
...Southern Democratic chieftains are above voting Negroes when the fighting gets hot, as white-crested Ed Crump has voted them for years in Memphis. Moreover, the poll tax means less to Southern Negroes since their economic status is being raised by Relief and farm subsidy funds. When their economic and social position is further bulwarked by the Wage-Hour law and C.I.O.'s bicolor unionization, the days of lily-white politics in the South may be numbered...
...reason for this surprise ending was that Tennessee's voters, even outside of Crump-controlled Shelby County, clearly indicated their repudiation of Senator Berry and Governor Browning. Pluralities of 86,000 and 74,000, respectively, were returned for the Crump-McKellar candidates, Lawyer Arthur Thomas Stewart of Winchester and Lawyer Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville. In politically amoral Memphis the Crumpsters could afford to conduct themselves so that there was nothing amiss for the Senate watchers to see. In the Crump precincts, normally delivered practically in toto to Crump candidates, Governor Browning was allowed to poll 9,000 votes against...
...Knoxville, who last week was defeated in his own forlorn race for the Senate.) After the Dayton furor, Tom Stewart returned to obscurity and to repeated re-election as attorney general in Tennessee's 18th judicial district. A competent trial lawyer, fanatical bird hunter, Methodist, he campaigned under Crump-McKellar direction simply as a Roosevelt New Dealer who would be sure to vote right. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, in Memphis attending a WPA conference, coolly declared: "WTPA workers have the right to vote and have civil liberties like anyone else. I don't see anything wrong in soliciting their...