Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tom Dewey (the likelihood of whose election Thomas conceded), a loaded compliment: "Mr. Dewey will have sense enough not to be a dictator...
Earl Warren made one important proviso when he agreed to become Tom Dewey's running mate. If the Republicans won, the Vice President would have something more to do than just preside over the Senate. Exactly what Warren had in mind (and what Dewey may have promised him) came out last week. A biography of Warren by Author (Lust for Life) Irving Stone describes the plan...
Riverboat Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade...
Nature Boy. Unlike Marse Henry Watterson and his famous "to hell with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns," Wallace has never been known for outspoken editorials on politics. But no one ever doubted where Uncle Tom stood on conservation, good will toward Latin America, snakes (he was a live-&-let-live man), or steel traps (he thought them inhumane). His most famous campaign was a five-year struggle which saved Cumberland Falls from a utilities syndicate headed by Sam Insull...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...