Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these reasons added up to the one big reason-the voters' distrust of the Republican Party as mirrored in the 80th Congress, a distrust which Tom Dewey's promises of efficient government had never been able to erase...
...Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
Last week, as Michigan loyally gave Tom Dewey a majority and elected a G.O.P. legislature, the voters quietly scuttled Kim Sigler in favor of a Democrat, and a virtually unknown Democrat at that. He was a tall (6 ft. 3½ in.) young (37) Detroit attorney named G. (for Gerhardt) Mennen Williams...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
...meetings in Paris, word that Tom Dewey had conceded came just as delegates were voting on the rights of non-self-governing territories. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky were so startled that (until they corrected themselves) they both voted yes instead of no. "Amazing, amazing," was all Vishinsky could...