Word: heflinism
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Your article Races (TIME, April 23, p. 9) you quote, probably the 57th time, "Tom-Tom Heflin who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope." Senator Heflin is no coward and "fears" no one, unless it be some cowardly assassin, a religious fanatic. Heflin is to be congratulated in having the "Guts" to stand up and swat the "Monster," the enemy of real Americanism. Of course our yellow, lying, subsidized sheets and journalistic prostitutes will jibe and howl when Heflin makes a speech. We need several more like him in our U. S. Senate...
...Graham, Philadelphia, complains in TIME, April 23, that he wants a variation of the time honored phrase. "Who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope," after the name of Senator Heflin...
...become so accustomed, however, but merely create some additional designation. You might reverse the allegation, and write something like this, each time you refer to the Roman Pope: "Achille Ambroglio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, who is mortally hated and feared by U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin...
This will serve to please Senator Heflin, and probably worry the Pope...
...April 23 being especially noted by intelligence and common sense on the part of several writers, Francis A. Thompson, John C. Wright, J. F. Bassett, particularly one by Thomas O. Marvin. I agree in the main with R. W. Graham, but the most effective way to deal with Heflin is to apply Irvin Cobb's "The Thunders of Silence," thus removing him from the pages of every newspaper of consequence. By ignoring him you obliterate him, to the relief of the nation...