Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boss Crump's power in Tennessee was never more convincingly demonstrated than a year ago when his candidate for Governor, Gordon Browning, won the Democratic primary by a 2 to 1 majority, carrying Memphis' Shelby County by 60,208 to his opponent's 881. It was never more seriously threatened than it was last week by the same Gordon Browning. In Nashville, a special session of the Legislature passed a bill to put Tennessee primaries on a county-unit basis like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes...
Trouble between Messrs. Browning and Crump has long been brewing. The Crump organization that helped elect Governor Browning last year had previously, in 1934, helped defeat him for the U. S. Senate. Once in the Governor's seat, Gordon Browning promptly broke with his political benefactor by appointing Boss Crump's longtime adversary, Lewis S. Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate...
...GARDEN OF ADONIS-Caroline Gordon-Scribner...
Serving modestly on the general staff headed by her husband, Poet-Critic Allen Tate (see p. 81), Kentucky-born Caroline Gordon belongs to that well-educated guerrilla band of Southern regionalists who about a decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between...
...Garden of Adonis Author Gordon unexpectedly opens up at close contemporary range to kill off the Yankee opinion which attributes the evils of sharecropping to Southern landlords. That few casualties bite the dust is due chiefly to Guerrilla-Author Gordon's scattering fire, in her overanxiety to wipe out the entire enemy at one try. A possible source of her anxious haste may be the fear of being shot in the back by such unreliable Southern allies as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell...