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Plenty of liquor is drunk in Tennessee, and it is legal to manufacture liquor in Tennessee for export to other States. This last is due to the cuteness of rich, tieless old Lem Motlow who owns most of Moore County. In 1937, Lem Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign...
Only a very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than...
...Come up here, you Georgia Crackers!" 75-year-old W. A. Shiver shouted through his snowy, walrus mustache. This tieless cotton farmer from Cairo, Ga. also launched a running tirade against his fellow-Georgian, anti-New Dealer Governor Eugene Talmadge, crying: "We ain't got no Governor, but we're here anyhow...
When the babble hushed and a Roman Catholic priest had had his turn delivering the benediction (a Protestant had had first turn), the Committee on Credentials reported. It sprang a surprise by unseating one of the party's most familiar convention figures, National Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert of Ninety-Six, S. C. When he set out to "clean up the G. 0. P., South" in 1929. President Hoover laid his political curse on the Tolbert regime in South Carolina, favoring instead the J. C. Hambright organizations. Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert...
What ardor was present resulted from the contested seating of blocs of delegates from South Carolina headed by Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...