Word: bachman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Daughaday earned his way to the finals, but was unable to cope with the phenomenal wrestling of Tommy King from Lehigh. He was in a position to win second place from his Penn State opponent, Donald Bachman, but because of the lateness of the match he decided to default and received third place automatically. This is the same position that he won last year. He took two points for a fall and third place...
Nathan Lynn Bachman, junior Senator from Tennessee who died of heart disease in Washington (TIME, May 3), was last week laid to rest in his native Chattanooga. His funeral was attended by a host of friends from Washington and all over Tennessee. The assemblage was not only sorrowful. It had some of the exhilaration of an oldtime Irish wake, and the chief intoxicant was politics. In hotel lobbies, even in the church, mourners peered at their fellows and whispered in little groups. "Who is So-&-So backing?" "There's Such-&-Such-what does he want?" The Chattanooga News with...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...
...whom almost tore his coat off, and sped to the Wrhite House. There the President, in the midst of preparations for departure (see p. 15), kept him waiting two and a half hours. Afterwards Governor Browning refused flatly to tell what the President had said, but newshawks guessed: Senator Bachman had opposed the President's Supreme Court proposal and the President wanted a loyal New Dealer who would give him another vote on that issue. When Governor Browning left the White House his troubles were not over. At his hotel he found many messages. A big batch of them...
...that Knoxville's Captain A. Mitchell Long, lawyer and politician, would make a fine Senator. The newspapers told him that Nashville's Albert H. Roberts, ex-Governor of Tennessee, had publicly proposed himself for the job. Many others pressed claims privately. At week's end Senator Bachman's sudden taking off was mourned by no one more than Governor Gordon Browning...