Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of its predecessors, the presidential campaign promised to be notable for irresponsible charges and ridiculous statements. Candidate Harry Truman charged that the Republican Party, and thus Candidate Tom Dewey, was the tool of "special interests." Candidate Henry Wallace cried that Candidate Truman was the tool of "the big money or the big brass." Candidate Dewey had not yet said anything, but he had okayed Harold Stassen's accusation that President Truman was trying to set "class against class...
...Demagogic Appeal." Next night, Harold Stassen (after clearing his speech with Tom Dewey) gave the Republican answer. He had almost no crowd-only about 3,000 party workers, who left 2,000 empty seats in Detroit's Masonic Temple. But he had the same radio network...
...four war years the railroads earned, according to Franklin Roosevelt, "the gratitude and admiration of the entire American people." They also earned a fat $2,893,000,000 profit that hauled many a road out of receivership and is now paying for its postwar re-equipment program. If Tom Clark won his suit, many a road would be threatened with bankruptcy...
...contributed prefaces to each volume revealing "intimate and startling details of the romantic and domestic side" of each author. The first two of these treasures will be published next week, entitled W. Somerset Maugham Presents Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and W. Somerset Maugham Presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. The $3.50 price tag might seem high, though, to readers who could get the same books entire-without Mr. Maugham's abridgments...
...Tom Jones, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield, Le Pere Goriot, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace...