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Politics again, George H. Tinkham, the Republican Congressman from the local Democratic district went back into office by carrying his district with 13,000 votes more than President Roosevelt got. Mr. Tinkham has whiskers, has held his seat since 1915, and has never yet made a campaign. This year he got back from Europe the day before the election. Probably he didn't bother to vote for himself. Of course he is a Harvard...
Because the high ceilings permitted him to display his Oriental tapestries and African trophies to best advantage, 20 years ago bearded, rotund Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts took a lifetime lease on an apartment in Washington's Arlington Hotel. Six months ago, when New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration rented the building, Representative Tinkham stood on his legal rights, refused to budge...
Last week, having waded for six months through a sea of Government stenographers whose desks are shoved up to his living room door, doughty Republican Tinkham still refused to move, declared: "They can't resettle...
...Moscow last week, as Dictator Stalin considered President Roosevelt's reputed offer, were aggressive President Vincent Bendix of Bendix Corp. (airplane equipment, automobile starters, brakes); General Motors Vice President T. W. Tinkham; White Motor Truck Vice President Colonel Everett Gardner; and representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., ace builders of battle planes. Though Washington spoke of Red orders for U.S. heavy industry, the supersalesmen actually in Moscow last week all seemed to offer equipment to motorize the Red Army against Japan...
...frequent world junkets Massachusetts' Congressman George Hoiden Tinkham flew into Moscow to check up on industrial conditions. So scraggly had grown his once long and silken beard that ignorant visitors to Russia thought him a typical Communist. His curiosity about business satisfied, Boston's champion of Red-bloodedness and Reaction boarded another plane to fly on to Siberia. No sooner had it got fairly into the air than the motor stalled and down it came a thwacking bump. Out crawled Congressman Tinkham. Resolved to trust his life to no more Soviet airmen, he gave up his Siberian trip, took...