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Last June the Democratic National Committeeman from Tennessee, Edward Hull Crump of Memphis, failed to attend the Democratic National Convention. Soon thereafter Tennessee's senior Senator, bumbling old Kenneth McKellar, hotfooted it to Memphis to see Boss Crump, conferred for a week with one of the South's most remarkable politicians...
...electoral victories, no defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic primary in Tennessee where a Democratic nomination is as good as an election, it was not surprising that Senator McKellar should confer at length with this fountain of political fortune...
What was surprising was that, after the Memphis conferences, Senator McKellar one morning in mid-July announced that his candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor was Burgin Estel Dossett, East Tennessee schoolteacher. Dossett was also the candidate of the present State Administration headed by Governor Hill McAlister, whom Boss Crump helped to elect. Six hours later Boss Crump announced: "We, what is generally known as the city and county crowd, will support Gordon Browning for Governor believing he is honestly the best...
Same day the Karpis-Campbell rewards were announced, Director Hoover received proof that not all Senators regard him and his work as does Tennessee's Kenneth Douglas McKellar, who as chairman of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee recently lopped $225,000 off the Bureau's 1937 appropriation increase recommended by a House committee, accused Director Hoover of "running wild" (TIME, April 27). Up in the Senate last week rose speaker after speaker to praise the Bureau of Investigation's work, insist that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced $225,000 off the Bureau's budgetary request...