Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assorted listener" [TIME, Oct. 4], let me tell you how this thing looks to me. Tom Dewey is running for President of Rotary International. Harry Truman is running for Mayor of Independence, Mo. Strom Thurmond is running for President of the Confederate States of America. Henry Wallace is running for President of the Soviet Union. The only man who seems to be running for national office is Earl Warren. He's running for Vice President of the United States. We've had a Vice President for the last three years. I'm running for cover. GREEN PEYTON...
...twelve doubtful states, that no one dared predict its outcome. If the Republicans failed to return a majority to the senior chamber of the 81st Congress, they would be unable to run its all-important committees. This fight, in fact, was a prime reason why Harry Truman and Tom Dewey took to the road last week (see below). Dewey, especially, was campaigning not so much for his own candidacy as for control of the 81st Congress...
...first time since the campaign began, Candidate Tom Dewey was directly challenged on two matters of political record. The challenger was the New York Times's able reporter James B. Reston. The dispute centered on the origins of the nation's bipartisan foreign policy and the European Recovery Program...
...Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, in his only speech of the campaign, gave Dewey full credit for agreeing to bipartisan liaison at the top level. But he admitted that the bipartisan approach "was first initiated informally in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator Tom Connally of Texas." Ailing, 77-year-old Cordell Hull added a plague-on-both-your-parties footnote from a Bethesda, Md. hospital...
...Valpey acted yesterday to strengthen what he considers weaknesses in the Crimson's defensive armor, when he tried out tackles Will Davis and Tom Guthrie as line-backer and defensive end respectively...