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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, made a speech, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Southern Senators | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...every school its "fat boy." To every club and circus its "biggest freak." The U. S. Senate, "greatest club in the world," school for Presidents, outstanding sideshow of the country, has Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Fourth-most illiterate is Alabama, home state of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Mississippi's Governor | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

With scientific aim, the modern world is slowly strangling its novelesque material. Lacking the palmer and the pilgrim, Sir Walter Scott's work might fall a trifle flat. Without magic and magicians, the "Arabian Nights" would never have been written. Sans tom-tom and medicine man, the ferocious savage of America has about him less awful mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOVEL SHORTAGE | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

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