Word: toms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Frank Murphy of Michigan, which has two other favorite sons (Tom Dewey, Arthur Vandenberg) on the Republican side of the national fence, will tell you sincerely, and so will his friends, that he has no ambition to run for President in 1940. They say nothing about the Vice Presidency...
...public pay roll since 1930, when red-faced Alabama withdrew him from the Senate, has -been James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, 70, whose mortal hate & fear of the Pope of Rome used to be sure-fire political hokum. His last job, in 1937, was as a special attorney for the Department of Justice at $6,000 per year...
...Tom-Tom is reported to have written Jim Farley a stream of job-begging letters lately, ending with one which told a story about a drunk who encountered the ghost of St. Paul. "Tell me," said the drunk, "did you ever get an answer to your letter to the Ephesians...
Last week Pope-baiting Tom-Tom got an answer from Pope-revering Frank Murphy, who, turning a good Christian cheek, told his press conference: "I want him to get an appropriate job, and I will take full responsibility...
This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...