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A MONSTROUS, SHOCKING, AND REVOLTING STATE OF AFFAIRS

Paul Cantrell term limited for sheriff, runs for state senate
Pat Mansfield runs to replace him
Abe Trew his Republican opponent

Election commission never told where new precincts were

Eliminating precincts made it harder to vote, easier to game election

Machine enemy: Congressman Judge John J. Jennings Jr. "The Five J's of Jellicoe". "Calls a spade a spade"

1942.08.07 3:00 AM, USS JAckson

Bill White: Hot shower, bean breakfast
Company B, First Battalion, Second Marine Division
Mission: Take out heavy guns
Get on shore, in jungle nobody around
Marines on Gavutu slaughtered, turn around

Gavutu cleared, snipers on Tanambogo, navy shells
Bill's company sent to take them out
Japanese fire trap, air filled with sounds of screaming marines.

WE WERE LIKE YOUNG TIGERS

Alvaro de Mendana 1567 - origin of Solomo islands name

USMC General Alexander Vandegrift ordered to seize Solomon islands
Primary targets : Guadalcanal and Tulagi
Put together a squad, including Bill White

Bill White couldn't wait to go, ready and enthusiastic.
Instructors tried to temper.
USS Hayes, JAckson, Adams (Unholy Three)

Practice landing in Fiji
Tokyo Rose

Harry T Burn: In 1920 McMinn County state representative
Barely audible "aye" responsible 4 passing women's suffrage

20 years later held by Cantrell ally George Woods: The Ripper Bill
Polling plcs reduced, court replaced by people named in bill, etc.
Passed in shady circumstances
Shady income sources

Last independent gov: Athens: No election took place, ballot box moved
Numerous gunmen
Observers violently kept away

EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT GEOPOLITICS, I LEARNED FROM FRANK CAPRA

Frank Capra: Big Name in Hollywood, joined army after Pearl Harbor
Capra makes Prelude to War, committed that everything in it be the absolute truth. Finished 1942.05
"Free World vs. Slave World" narrated by Walter Huston
Criticizing isolationism

Meanwhile, Bill White finishing his training

Bill White's time in marine training
Got into it with instructors often, resolved to be just good enough to avoid getting kicked out

1923: Marin Corps Major Pete Ellis: Analysis Japan would initiate, US would have to capture South Pacific territories, Ellis goes to recon, dies mysteriously.

1937: JP invasions: US embargoes iron outside western hemisphere except UK
Roosevelt freezes JP credits and embargoes fuel

1936 - Browning elected
Browning orders National Guard to Shelby County for next election

Crimp sues - Crump's cousin federal judge orders U.S. marshal to keep the Guard out
Browning sent officials to monitor: Ora Daugherty arrested by Jim Carmichael in McMinn

Prentice Cooper wins Senate seat

Crump takes oath of office in secret, resigns, convinces city commission to replace with handpicked successor.

Supported friendly candidates, financed by Memphis gambling

Sherriff Burch Biggs - Paull Cantrell's mother Biggs' schoolteacher
Biggs taught Cantrell "his ABCs in politics"

Senator Kenneth McKellar - Crump's man in Washington, conflict w/ Crump, Gordon Browning elected, but not loyal

THE KING OF TENNESSEE

Edward Hull Crump - humble beginnings
Elected to Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, three raid stunt
Elected mayor of Memphis

Discreetly legalized gambling for kickbacks
Saloonkeepers suddenly interested in getting people to polls
City employees expected to work on campaign

No parking signs, police phalanx

TN ouster lawsuits
Crump ousted from prev. term, could serve second

Taylor appeals to TN Supreme Court
One page ruling, uphold Quinn, imposed additional attorneys' fees