U.S. voters last week got a preview of where their future political candidates are coming from:
In Indiana, Republicans hoped that the shot in the arm that Navy Lieut. James Tucker, 35, got in the U.S. landing at Salerno would be a shot in the arm to Indiana GOPolitics. Six-foot, boyish Lieut. Tucker (now home on convalescent leave) once served as Indiana’s Secretary of State, would make a hot and heroic candidate for U.S. Senator in 1944, if the Navy gives him a medical discharge.
In Tennessee, Boss Ed Crump of Memphis likewise was hoping for a medical discharge for an old-line Crumpet, Captain Andrew T. (“Tip”) Taylor Jr., 32, wounded in the foot in Italy. Tip Taylor, who has held Crump-given jobs as legislator, judge, minor state officeholder, but is a political unknown, was regarded as likely to be Crumped up for Governor.
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