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...knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...
Senator Pat Harrison was vacationing in California, Senator Joe O'Mahoney was in Wyoming resting up for his Monopoly Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...chiefly from among his friends. But the Committee's biggest news was Tennessee. Upon scanning an investigator's report on that State, the Committee quickly sent him-and six more men-back for further details. While Senator 'Walsh huffed & puffed about "worse than gutter politics," Senator Sheppard on almost the eve of Tennessee's election issued an unprecedented statement...
Senator Walsh snorted, without disclosing details: "It is almost unbelievable that a political election could reach such a low level! . . . The American people would be shocked!" Senator Sheppard said in advance that the campaign looked so bad it pointed "sharply toward an election contest in the U. S. Senate, regardless of which group's candidate triumphs...
Other officers of the Club elected at last night's session are Nathan M. Plaut '39, manager, Irving H. Soden '39, leader of the Gold Coast Orchestra, John R. Bemis '40, librarian and David P. Sheppard '40, specialty manager...