Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Pa., they bombed the house of Tom Cakus, mine boss...
...restlessness broke out in Ohio, too. At St. Clairsville, police hunted for "Red Head Carrie" Cressi, aged 18, for leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues...
Sirs: That writeup about Senator ("Tom Tom") Heflin was a gem-one of the best things you have ever done...
...Acting. Earle Larimore, Glenn Anders and Tom Powers played husband, lover, friend, all acceptably. To Mr. Powers went the most irregular characterization and he played it with a curiously electric irregularity. Lynn Fontanne drew the desperately difficult duty of portraying Nina. Her performance, like the whole of the event, lacked perfection but came close to majesty in many a passage...
...Fourth-most illiterate is Alabama, home state of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin?...