Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noticed your write-up, in TIME dated July 23 about "Tom Heeney." I wish you bunch of "pen pushers" would learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance...
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...held last week returned Governor Dan Moody for re-election by some 100,000 votes. T. B. Love, loudspoken anti-Smithist, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, ran some 80,000 votes behind Barry Miller, pro-Smith. Senator Earle B. Mayfield was close-pressed in defending his seat from ambitious Representative Tom Connally...
...Brooklyn Eagle, stepped forward and stopped the fight, awarding Champion Tunney what is called a technical knockout. Heeney's head was drooping and there was a liquid in his eyes in addition to blood. Tunney went over to him, put two arms on his shoulders, said: "Tom, you are a game man." . . . Promoter George L. ("Tax") Rickard, complaining that the radio was ruining his business and threatening to bar broadcasting in the future, announced a fight deficit of $155,719. The figures: Receipts Gross gate ............................. $691,014 Federal and state taxes........ 169,591 Net gate.................................... 521,423 Cinema rights...
...alarmed and surprised at a certain small but ever so noticeable "faux pas" in your issue of July 16, where, on page 9, col. i, under the heading "Bandwagon" (O how it pains me to set this down!) you committed the horrible blunder of referring to Senator James Thomas (Tom Tom) Heflin -without (terribly so) the usual and customary appositional phrase which begins, "who mortally hates...