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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"
— May 10, 2025 06:35AM
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"
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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.
— May 10, 2025 06:31AM
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.
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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
— May 10, 2025 06:25AM
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
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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
— May 10, 2025 06:18AM
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
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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
— May 10, 2025 06:11AM
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
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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
— May 10, 2025 06:01AM
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
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FOR THE DURATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Takeo Yoshikawa - Japanese spy, shocked by Honolulu JP immigrants' deep sense of belonging to the US
War is Declared
Charles Scott Jr. - Cantrell's opponent in 1936 - Assigned to Air Corps
Jim Buttram: deferred-entry agreement, assigned to Infantry
Bill White spent weeks convincing parents to let him go
12.21: Plane crash over Athens
Ralph Duggan
— May 10, 2025 05:43AM
Takeo Yoshikawa - Japanese spy, shocked by Honolulu JP immigrants' deep sense of belonging to the US
War is Declared
Charles Scott Jr. - Cantrell's opponent in 1936 - Assigned to Air Corps
Jim Buttram: deferred-entry agreement, assigned to Infantry
Bill White spent weeks convincing parents to let him go
12.21: Plane crash over Athens
Ralph Duggan
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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
— May 10, 2025 05:34AM
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
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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
— May 10, 2025 05:31AM
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
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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
— May 10, 2025 05:26AM
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
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Taylor appeals to TN Supreme Court
One page ruling, uphold Quinn, imposed additional attorneys' fees
— May 03, 2025 05:36AM
One page ruling, uphold Quinn, imposed additional attorneys' fees
