Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mencken, who cares for nobody, except for the laughs, the whole race looked satisfactorily scandalous. He described President Truman as a "shabby mountebank," Tom Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
...once-Democratic Baltimore Sun, which supported Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Tom Dewey in 1944, decided to stick with the G.O.P. again, urged its readers to vote for Dewey. Said the Sun: "He is a middle-of-the-road man if ever...
Reporting on the progress of the President's loyalty program, Attorney General Tom C. Clark declared that 2,110,521 Government employees had been found loyal beyond question. The status of 6,344 employees-about one-third of 1%-had needed further investigation by the FBI. By latest count, 883 of these had resigned rather than face a loyalty-board hearing. Forty-four were cases of mistaken identity-the accused just happened to have the same names as subversive suspects not employed by the Government. In the 1,092 cases acted on by loyalty boards, 59 employees have been...
...quietly as a Quaker meeting. For a fortnight it had been clear (to all but bitter-enders) that Billy Southworth's Boston Braves were too far ahead to be caught. This week the Braves clinched it -their first pennant since 1914. Boston's Acting Mayor Tom Hannon called for the blowing of sirens all over town...
Papa DiMaggio, who ran a fishing boat from the wharf at the foot of Taylor Street, believed that his five sons should be fishermen too. All the boys-Tom, Michael, Vince, Joe and Dominic-worked on the boat at one time or another, but most of the time they preferred to play baseball. "Baseball, what is that?" Papa DiMaggio used to shout. "A bum's game! A no good game! Whoever makes a living at baseball...