Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd on Hollywood's Vine Street shouted, cheered and clapped at the sight of Jimmy Roosevelt emerging from Tom Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs...
Mostly his enemies in the party remembered Jimmy's attempt to dump Harry Truman in favor of Eisenhower at Philadelphia last year. "We can't very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name Roosevelt means something. The people here will fill a ballpark to see a Roosevelt-or a Clark Gable or a Lana Turner, of a Frankenstein. But they won't vote for them." Most of the Truman professionals preferred California's E. George Luckey, the swashbuckling Imperial Valley cattleman...
Texas' Senator Tom Connolly got off a history-making announcement in a speech before 400 businessmen celebrating the opening of a $7,000,000 Nabisco plant in Houston. Assuring the baking company officials that they had invested their money safely, the senator predicted: "There is not going to be any Communism in this country or in Texas...
...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...
There were a few exceptions, notably in New Jersey, where Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll rode back into office over the crumbling remains of Hague empire. But few Republicans could share Governor Tom Dewey's strange conclusion that the New York election "is a setback and not a gain" for the Fair Deal...