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Last year in New York City Phil Edwards, Negro captain of the New York University track team, married a white girl. Queried by a friend, Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, wrote a letter in which he said...
Alabama. Banished from his party primary by 27 members of the Democratic State Executive Committee because he deserted Smith in 1928, Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, returned to his State to open a campaign as an independent candidate for reelection. Said he of the "misguided 27": "I'm sorry for them. How pitiful is their lot! How ashamed they must be feeling. . . . But Old Tom will show them the proper way to the light...
...presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...
...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...
Pope-baiter's son, James Thomas Heflin Jr., was removed last week from a ship of the Panama Pacific Line to the Samaritan Hospital, Panama. He suffered from "acute indigestion." His cabinmate, Utah Representative Elmer O. Leatherwood, nevertheless asked for different accommodations, said young Tom-Tom had been drunk every day since he left Manhattan...