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...Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
...Gerald Nye, 52, giving up the Senate seat in which North Dakota voters had kept him for 19 years, admitted: "I would be lacking completely in frankness were I to say that leaving . . . is painless. . . . Knowing that this might be the last time I will speak on this floor, there has been some temptation to make this . . . an 'I told you so' speech. . . . You see the gravity of the peril in which our foreign entanglements have involved us. . . . I am sure, knowing the power of British propaganda, that within 20 years-perhaps within ten years-we shall...
...78th, it 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...
...Congress will be shy a few of its predecessor's most flamboyant citizens (Ham Fish, "Cotton Ed" Smith, Gerald Nye, etc.). But it will have its own intriguing collection of new faces. Among them...
...voters showed their internationalist sympathies in ousting Republicans. To defeat went North Dakota's slippery Isolationist Gerald P. Nye, Pennsylvania's Isolationist James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, and Connecticut's John Danaher. All were replaced by men pledged to U.S. cooperation in world affairs: Governor John Moses in North Dakota, Congressman Francis J. Myers in Pennsylvania, and ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon in Connecticut...