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Last week, Boss Ed was up to his eyebrows in a shouting contest with the Crump-hating Nashville Tennessean. He was annoyed beyond his limited endurance by the Tennessean's insistent labeling of Memphis as "Crumptown," and even more annoyed by its fight against the poll tax, which helps to keep bosses in power. Snapped Boss Ed: "This trio of mangy bubonic rats are conscienceless liars . . . cowards at heart, yellow to the core. . . . There is not one of them who, either singly or all together, would meet us on the street . . . and say the things to our faces that...
When the stubborn House of Representatives balked at passing a bill which would merely have eliminated the poll tax for servicemen, Governor Arnall rushed to the chamber, dramatically told the House that, if it did not abolish the tax entirely, he would do so by executive decree. Thus scourged into line, the House and the Senate passed the repealer...
Until last week eight Southern states forced all voters to pay a poll tax-thus keeping a tight check on Negro voters. Then Georgia made it seven...
...Georgia would never have thrown off this feudal custom had it not been for its young (37) and energetic Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall. Having spent two years ridding his state of the influences left by gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, Governor Arnall jumped into the poll-tax battle with both feet...
Meanwhile, as it must to most public issues, the Gallup poll came to baseball...