Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President good-naturedly took the hint and held a press conference the next day under a cork tree-his first since the exhausting election campaign. He reported on his physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the New Dealing Chicago Sun-Times reported: "He speaks now with tones of authority . . . confident of his mandate." From his cracker-barrel perch on the arch-Republican New York Sun, Columnist H. I. Phillips wrote reassuringly: "I think Harry's hat still fits . . . and that always in his ear he hears...
...President made one appointment. He named John Foster Dulles, Tom Dewey's foreign-policy adviser, to substitute temporarily for George Marshall in Paris as chief of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly, thus reaffirming his faith in the bipartisan foreign policy...
...There was little doubt about the kind of housecleaning Kelland had in mind. In his eyes-and in the eyes of the G.O.P. Old Guard-Tom Dewey and Earl Warren are pseudo-New Dealers and therefore not good Republicans...
...yesterday's practice scrimmage, Chase's choices as first squad forwards were Captain Dave Key at center, and Charlie Coulter and sophomore speedster Jack Carman at the wings. As his second line, he used last year's sophomore combination of Myles Huntington, Dave Abbot, and Tom Mosely. Changes in these lines can easily occur between now and Tuesday, however...
...very flossy bird, a great musical Tom stuffed with stars. The producers have given it everything a picture of this sort normally requires for success. Betty Grable is there to show off her pretty ankles and sing some nice tunes. Dan Dailey figures to de-emphasize Miss Grable's mediocre dancing with his own slick routines. The supporting cast of June Havoc, Jack Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits...