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Sick & tired of J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin's threats to contest the election which dropped him out of his comfortable U. S. Senate seat in 1930, an Alabama legislator named Coates rose in Montgomery in 1931, declared: "No man in Alabama during the last quarter of a century has received greater gifts within the range of the electorate of this State than has J. Thomas Heflin...
...three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention of the Attorney General mandatory. As the four were read the Vice President pounded his ivory gavel on his desk as though it had been on a tom-tom, shouting: "Without objection the amendment is agreed to. . . Without objection the amendment is agreed...
...dangerously suggestive of what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find the philosopher's stone by opening their eyes than they would by keeping them tightly closed." Southern politics, says he, with its Tom-Tom Heflin, Huey Long and The Man Bilbo should be reported on the sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes...
Passing a large pool where log rollers do their stuff five times a day, the spectator comes to the teepee of Chief Walks-Like-An-Elephant, who is hitting his little portable tom-tom with alarming vehemence. Coming to the last of the wild animal exhibits, a stirring collection of rare rabbits and guines pigs, the observer will-hear someone say, "Oh! Look at the bob-tailed rate...
...sheep. To thwart the blundering efforts of Ollie and Stannie to prevent the apparently inevitable manage de convenance, Silas Barnaby kidnaps one of the Three Little Pigs and plants a string of sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom...