The first open revolt against the New Deal flared up to-day in Ten~ nessee, locale of one of the administration's most revolutionary experi ments, Three thousand insurgent Demo-coats and Republicans gathered here to-day in a rump convention in which they nominated their own gubernatorial candidate, endorsed the Republican nominee for the United States Senate and passed fiery resolutions opposing the New Deal and condemning the tactics of the Post—master-General, Mr. James A Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Special significance attaches to the uprising against the administration by Democrats of this state " because Tennessee is the scene of operations for the vast engineering and social welfare enterprises of the Tennessee Valley authority, including the great Muscle Shoals Power and nitrates plants, These enterprises are destined to have a far-reaching effect upon agricultural economies and the trend toward national economic planning, and therefore the representatives this state in the next Congress will exert exceptional influence in national counclis—United Press.
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