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...health of the party, and to coach freshmen candidates in the fine art of campaigning. Harry Truman, the party's oracle of optimism, was unable to attend the meeting (his doctor has ordered him not to do any politicking this fall). But Harry Truman thumped his first tom-tom, with a nostalgic give-em-hell letter to Democratic Chairman Steve Mitchell...
High Noon (Frankie Laine; Columbia). A folk-style ditty from the picture of the same name. Blues-Belter Laine voices the passionate plea, "Do not forsake me," and a confusion of other thoughts, over a throbbing tom-tom beat...
...Black Belt," 1929-35); of a kidney ailment; in Chicago. In Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would be worth at least 50,000 votes when Heflin ran for reelection...
Died. J. (for James) Thomas Heflin, 82, jovial Alabama demagogue, Democratic Representative (1904-20) and Senator (until 1930); after long illness; in Lafayette, Ala. A cartoonist's Congressman (windy manner, frock coat and black bow tie), Klan-backed "Tom-Tom" stood for higher cotton prices and "white supremacy," inveighed against "the liquor interests," "the wolves of Wall Street," New York's "Roman-Tammany system," and Catholicism,* which he represented as out to i) get his scalp, 2) plunge the U.S. into war with Mexico. In 1928, rather than support Catholic Al Smith for the presidency, Heflin...
...years, TIME tagged him as "Senator 'Tom-Tom' Heflin, who mortally hates & fears the Pope of Rome...