Word: thill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tripartite. In Milwaukee's normally Republican, heavily German Fifth District, isolationist ex-Congressman Lewis Thill was trounced by six-foot, ruddy Andrew Biemiller, 38, a man of three parties. Biemiller was first a campaign manager for Socialist Norman Thomas in 1932; then a Progressive floor leader in Wisconsin in 1541; a Democratic jobholder ($4,600 a year in WPB) until he ran for Congress...
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...