Word: misters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "Sleepy Tom" Stewart had done any wrong. Like Tennessee's other Senator, choleric old Kenneth McKellar, he knew where Mister Crump stood on most issues and acted accordingly. When anybody, anywhere, took Mister Crump's name in vain, Tom Stewart was likely to rise up on the Senate floor to defend "the South's greatest leader...
Boss Ed Crump of Memphis planned to provide Tennessee with a new U.S. Senator next year. Toward this end, Mister Crump last week formally and cynically gave the boot to his servile servant, Senator Tom Stewart...
...Mister Crump could not afford to give Tom Stewart a third try. He was expecting trouble in 1948. It would probably be stirred up by an old Crump foe, onetime Governor Gordon Browning. Freshly out of uniform, with a bright Army record behind him, big, tough Mr. Browning might run either for the senatorship or for the governorship. He had not yet declared himself...
...Mister Crump was ready for anything. For the governorship, he would run incumbent Jim McCord, no ball of fire but a man of considerable personal popularity. For the senatorship, he wanted a man with a war record to match Gordon Browning's. Thus eliminated from consideration as a Crump candidate, Tom Stewart bravely announced last week that he would run for re-election anyway. Snapped Ed Crump: "Stewart will be going around in circles, not knowing the directions, north, east, south, or west...
...find out what his readers want, Mister Bart occasionally does a bit of pub-crawling. This has resulted in a New Look for Jane. After enduring several cold winters in bra and panties (or less), she has been more modestly clad; Bartholomew, impressed by the Mirror's political weathermaking, thinks her old near-nudeness "no longer seems right in a paper which people are taking seriously...