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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...
...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...
...every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." George Holden Tinkham '94, Rep. 10th District Massachusetts...
...Tinkham: "We're supposed to be neutral." Hull: "We aren't going to let [neutrality] chloroform us into inactivity." Tinkham: "But they were little countries and we have 3,000 miles of sea between us, and a fine Navy." Hull: "I disapprove of your complacency...