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10th District--Tinkham, Republican, leads slightly on fragmentary returns...
Bush-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham (Republican) of Massachusetts believes that the best way to get re-elected to Congress is to leave the voters alone, go hunting wild animals in Africa, return only in time to vote for himself. This system has served him well for twelve consecutive terms. Last week he announced he would employ it this year as usual...
...past half-hour, in the presence of the House and Senate assembled, Vice President Garner had been opening, Senators George and Austin. Representatives Tinkham and Fletcher counting, the vote of the Electoral College. State by State the landslide vote piled up. At the end the Vice President did not bother to announce the awesome total...
...instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared as an off-the-record speaker at a luncheon of the National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight in his dark apartment in what was formerly the Arlington Hotel-where he and the Resettlement Administration are now sole tenants -when he received from the U. S. Consul in Kenya Colony official assurance that his long forgotten record of shooting six leopards...
...plurality for Senator, and Democrat Charles F. Hurley a 39,000 plurality for Governor, proceeded also to elect a Republican Secretary of State, a Democratic State Auditor, a Republican Legislature, a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, and two Republican Representatives in place of Democrats. Beaver-bearded George Holden Tinkham, who has spent the last 21 of his 66 years as Republican Representative from the Democratic city of Boston, returned home day before election in time to vote. As usual in campaign years, he had nonchalantly spent abroad, in Berlin, Rome, Bucharest, the weeks during which his Democratic opponent was berating him. This...