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...drives to work in a Chevrolet which she expects "to have some intelligence itself." Midmorning, her executive, Mrs. Tova Petersen Wiley, and the rest of her staff gather in her office for coffee and a conference. That is where problems really get thrashed out, to be settled later more formally...
Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska...
Next day the Senate Republican conference, to fill the two Republican vacancies on the all-important Foreign Relations Committee, appointed New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
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...threat of the reddest of red-hot isolationists-Richard J. Lyons, the Chicago Tribune-backed candidate in Illinois -was soundly beaten off by New Dealing Scott Lucas. The only really hard-shell isolationists who won reelection, both more narrowly than expected, were Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley and New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey...