Word: heflinism
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Alabama's Heflin...
Alabama. Republicans in convention voted to put up no party nominees for Senator or Governor, tacitly decided to throw their 50,000 votes to the independent candidacies of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin for re-election and Hugh A. Locke for Governor. Republicans hoped less to elect these men than to break still further the state Democracy...
Alabama. With Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin who mortally fears and hates the Roman Pope, legally barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, suffered bruises, cuts, a sprained wrist, when the motor in which he, his son and some Ku Klux friends were riding smacked into a telephone pole near Decatur...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama-whose mortal hate and fear of the Pope at Rome caused him to desert the Democratic party in 1928- is a widower. Nevertheless an action for divorce was formally filed against him in Chancery Court at Birmingham. Ala., last week. The charges: desertion and cruelty. The complainant: "Miss Southern Democracy." Excerpts from her petition: "Your complainant and your respondent [Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank...