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...hovered this week in the background of a corn-belt primary. Iowa Republicans went to the polls to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate. They had four choices, but the fight centered on two: Governor George Wilson, veteran corporation lawyer and politico, and State Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornburg, backed by Willkie...
...Thornburg endorsed Willkie's principles: that the G.O.P. must lay aside its isolationism, that the U.S. has ah obligation to help remake a post-war world...
Whether he asked for it or not, heavyset, heavily solemn Governor Wilson had the backing of the isolationist Chicago Tribune. Chiding Thornburg for tying "himself to Willkie's kite," the Tribune proclaimed: "At the Republican State headquarters there is a natural frigidity towards Willkie." Frigid or not, Iowa rejected Willkie-backed Thornburg for Tribune-backed Wilson...
Referee, Dyer, Yale '95. Umpire, Moyle, Yale '91, Dartmouth's coach. Linesman, Thornburg, Dartmouth Medical School...
...second game with Dartmouth will be played this afternoon at the usual hour, four o'clock. Upton and Wiggin will be Harvard's battery. For Dartmouth, O'Connor may pitch for a few innings and Thornburg will finish the game. The teams will bat as follows...