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...Declined (6440-18) to unseat John Hollis Bankhead in favor of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin as Alabama's Senator (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...record of Playwright O'Neill easily establishes him as the nation's greatest. The tom-tom which thudded through The Emperor Jones (1920) sounded a new pulse on the U. S. stage. With Beyond the Horizon (1919), Anna Christie (1921) and Strange Interlude (1929) he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize. His published works number 28. If you would like a copy of Thirst & Other One-Act Plays, his first printed volume, it will cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greece in New England | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Bitterly, passionately Alabama's Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin harangued his colleagues last week on this theme: that the election last November at which he was defeated by John Hollis Bankhead was conducted with dishonesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Very Poor Sportsmanship | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...record of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama is as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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