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Howard Johnstone McMurray, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, who beat Republican Isolationist Lewis D. Thill in a Milwaukee German district which sent Socialist Victor L. Berger to Congress in 1918 as an anti-war representative. Son of a Baptist preacher, short, sturdy Democrat Howard McMurray, 41, is a licensed pilot, onetime Interstate Airlines operations and sales manager, onetime insurance statistician. Socialite women worked in his campaign headquarters, labor leaders supported him on the radio. His platform: post-war internationalism...
...Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, the Nation's No. 1 isolationist: In 1939 he believed Germany's claims were "just"; in 1941 he became entangled in Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck's messy affairs...
...Three Illinois Republicans: Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, isolationist pawn of Chicago Publisher Robert R. McCormick; billiard-bald, Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...
...26th Congressional district of New York there were many crossed fingers this week. There was the dinkiest of dinky chances that Isolationist Congressman Hamilton Fish, Republican, might be defeated at the polls by Ferdinand A. Hoyt...
...interesting that ultra-isolationist newspapers in America have, instinctively, become the first to sense this development ; they have leaped upon Willkie with extraordinary hatred. . . . They know that the thing he might bring back with him is world unity...