Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on your courageous article concerning the untimely death of Ray Cirrotta of Dartmouth as a result of a brutal beating at the hands of Tom Doxsee and his seven friends [TIME, June...
...Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General Tom Clark who boasted a fortnight ago that "under President Truman more topnotch Communists have been convicted than during our entire history...
...crowds which had jammed the Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
...Fisher requests the honour of your presence at the marriage of Ann Howe to Mr. Joe Palooka on the afternoon of June twenty-fourth in your favorite newspaper." Last week Ham Fisher had already received formal acceptances from Chief Justice Fred Vinson, General Omar Bradley, and Attorney General Tom Clark...
...strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...