Word: americanist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time candy manufacturer coined a word at the Ford Hall Forum: "Americanist," which he called the antithesis of Communist." He said Birchers will "defeat the Communist conspiracy by disseminating Americanist literature, forming Americanist fronts, and sponsoring Americanist speakers...
...Senate floor, Kuchel attacked the society by name, saving his hardest words for Founder and Leader Robert Welch, a retired candymaker and self-styled Americanist, who rates Harry Truman, John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others, as Communist agents or dupes. "Good God," roared Kuchel while rushing to Ike's rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said...