Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of exuberance, Harry Truman declared that his biggest asset was his opponent, Tom Dewey, who had cried at Louisville, "Don't worry about me." The voters didn...
There was not a new Truman. At 64, he was the same brisk, gregarious, stubborn, artless man, the fanatically loyal friend who flew from Washington to attend the funeral of Boss Tom Pendergast, the same engaging Missourian who tripped over his academic gown and blurted: "Whups! I forgot to pull up my dress." Home in Independence for Christmas last week, Harry Truman tramped through the familiar streets with careless informality, dropped in on his friends, doffed his hat to neighbors. Like any well-trained husband, he carefully knocked the snow off his boots before going into the house...
Attorney General Tom Clark also spoke up. "The evidence [gathered by the FBI] discloses," he said, "that Mr. Duggan was a loyal employee of the United States Government." Later this week on a television program, he added that Duggan had been approached ten years ago by "two persons," but that Duggan had "repulsed them both" and that "we have found no connection between him and any espionage...
Some of the committees which Graham joined were Communist-front groups. He sponsored the 1940 and 1941 conferences of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born which is now on Attorney General Tom Clark's list of subversive organizations. In other groups he has joined, Communists have climbed aboard. Most notable of these was the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, of which Graham became the first chairman in 1938. The House Committee on Un-American Activities called it "perhaps the most deviously camouflaged Communist-front organization...
Later he was a protégé of famed Editor Fremont Older. When Older became convinced that Tom Mooney (whom he disliked) had been railroaded to jail for the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, the Bulletin's bosses refused to back up their editor. W. R. Hearst sent Older a wire: COME TO THE CALL. BRING THE MOONEY CASE WITH YOU. Older took Johnny Bruce with him too, and Bruce dug up the evidence that eventually helped free Mooney...