Word: meacham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee. Democratic Senator William Emerson Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Lawrence Davis Tyson, was nominated for the short Senate term (to 1931) over Dr. John R. Neal, Knoxville attorney in the famed Scopes ("monkey") trial at Dayton. He will oppose F. Todd Meacham, Republican senatorial nominee, in November. For the Democratic nomination for the full Senate term Congressman Cordell Hull of Carthage and Andrew L. Todd were prime candidates. Congressman Hull, 58, Spanish War Veteran, entered the House in 1907, became a potent member of its Ways & Means Committee, wrote the first income...