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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these discharges of verbal grapeshot infuriate Crump's enemies, they charm and stimulate his admiring friends and followers. For Ed Crump, a ruthless, rawhiding, ramrodding political boss, is also a dramatic figure molded in the fighting Tennessee tradition of Andy Jackson, Sam Houston, and Nolichucky Jack Sevier-and thousands of Tennesseans love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Southern colleges and University of Chicago's peppery President Robert Maynard Hutchins traded whiffs of grapeshot last week over Chicago's new two-year bachelor's degree. When members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools denounced the Hutchins plan as "cheapening . . . the baccalaureate degree," Hutchins wired them a challenge: let their graduating seniors try the examinations to be given to sophomores for Chicago's baccalaureate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Challenge | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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