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...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, it was a crushing defeat. In the by-election in Grey North, Ontario, the Tories this week elected stout, ham-handed Garfield Case to Parliament...
They bought dress goods, rubbers and overshoes, canned goods, cosmetics. They bought Canadian cigarets at 35? a pack. But most of all they wanted meat. With arms laden with bacon, beef, ham, canned meats, chicken, and even rabbit, they headed back to the U.S. On the Detroit side of the Detroit River, they filled the U.S. customs office to overflowing...
...Senator Gillette's voting record (straight down the isolationist line against Lend-Lease, revision of the Neutrality Act, etc.), and 2) by the need to distinguish him from such impassioned new-line Democrats as Claude Pepper and Joe Guffey. Never to be confused with such clamorous isolationists as Ham Fish, Iowa's well-liked, forthright Senator Gillette,"apparently not too old-line to change, was appointed to the Senate Committee which last year wrote the Connally Resolution on postwar world cooperation...
...will be more because of the colorful, noisy reputations that were lost. Texas' Red-baiting, ranting Representative Martin Dies decided he might as well not try for reelection. And the U.S. voters themselves decided that they could get along better without such famed isolationists as Gerald Nye. Ham Fish. Rufus Holman. "Puddler Jim" Davis and Bennett Champ Clark...
Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight...