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Among the Congressmen around the horseshoe were three Republican isolationists: Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., 59, fluttery, saccharine, gushing, with orchids and iron-grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious...
...adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman Joe Martin-not the only Republican more isolationist than his Presidential candidate-striding up to the teller to vote for the amendment beside his bearded fellow Bay Stater, Isolationist George Holden Tinkham...
...Before he sailed for Oslo, he confidently left in the hands of the House Foreign Affairs Committee a bill proposing a $50,000 appropriation for a 1940 session of the Union in the U. S. In choosing his fellow junketeers, happy Mr. Fish overlooked Massachusetts' bush-bearded George Tinkham, a power on the House committee and inordinately fond of travel. As Congress adjourned, Mr. Tinkham was able to cable Mr. Fish: "We have thrown your invitation in the wastebasket...
When Boston's burly, tiger-hunting, spade-bearded Republican Representative George Holden Tinkham rose to speak in the House for the first time in half a dozen years he was saddened by a new kind of heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk...
...busy with "American business" to join his colleagues in receiving Their Majesties in the Capitol rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts asked to be assured that the royal visit portended no entangling alliance. Courtly Senator Ashurst promised everyone that he would bow low as usual, said his head is always "unbloody but bowed...