Word: tinkham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Washington heard that Messrs. Tinkham and Rich were retiring from the House of Representatives, and that Mr. Fish was in such deep political trouble that he might not win back his seat this autumn...
Three prime reactionaries, three prime Roosevelt-haters, three prime pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists are the Messrs. Tink ham, Rich and Fish: George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, Robert Fleming Rich of Pennsylvania, Hamilton Fish of New York...
Owner of the scraggliest beard in Congress, George Tinkham has been stalking Roosevelt for nine years, hating the White House and all its works, hating the British as only an oldtime Yankee can, smelling Benedict Arnold in the Destroyer Deal, Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter; declaring always for strict neutrality, never thundering against Germans or Japs...
...Like Tinkham, Rich faced a redistricting problem and a tough race, bowed out of his own accord. Rich, too, will move back to his birthplace, the bustling mill-town of Woolrich, Pa., where, as general manager and treasurer of the Woolrich Woolen Mills, he is Citizen No.1...
...only truces were political expediencies. In the House, Republicans Fish, Tinkham and Mundt gathered enough strength from their own party and from anti-Roosevelt Democrats to harass and threaten every Presidential move. In the Senate, Wheeler, Bennett Clark, Taft and Nye did the same, with similar hybrid cohorts...