Word: stewart
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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...
...bumbling Tom Stewart had little appeal at the polls. The only notable thing he had ever done was to prosecute John T. Scopes in Tennessee's famed monkey trial, back in 1925. Even with the full power of the Crump machine behind him, he barely managed to get himself sent to Washington, first in 1938 (when he ran for an unexpired term) and again...
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...
...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...
Then the boss brought forth the man he had chosen to take over Tom Stewart's job: Circuit Judge John A. Mitchell, 52, of Cookerville. Mister Crump had never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years...