Word: diehardism
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...that point, frightened Administration leaders called a recess, sent Congress home to get an earful of what the people were talking about. The strategy worked. Many a Congressman came back to Washington realizing that he had been out of step with his constituents. But the diehard isolationists continued to think that the country was out of step. In November, only 24 days before the Japs attacked Hawaii, they fought an amendment to the Neutrality Act to permit arming of U.S. merchantmen. Even as he got news of the attack, Senator Nye was still isolating as hard as he could...
...view of the plane v. battleship controversy. Said he: "Anyone who thinks the battleship is passé simply has not studied the progress of naval war in the last two years. The battleship is vulnerable to air attack and must be protected by aircraft. . . . I'm not a diehard who thinks that any warship can be built to withstand air attack, but I am a die-hard who thinks that the final showdown will be ships of the line against ships of the line, aircraft being equal." The burden of the Navy's new 150,000 tons will...
There was no calm there. This "investigating" subcommittee was no ordinary Senatorial investigating committee. No Senatorial vote authorized it. Set up by Isolationist Senator Wheeler, in his capacity as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, it held hearings supposedly to determine whether an investigation should be made. Stuffed with diehard Isolationists-Clark of Idaho, Bone of Washington (absent because of illness), Tobey of New Hampshire, Brooks of Illinois-it had only one Administration supporter. He was Ernest McFarland, 6-ft. ex-judge of Florence, Ariz., who had won a surprise victory over Senator Ashurst...
...Wintringham is no Sandhurst diehard, but his dope on warfare is from the inside. At 18 he joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in France as air gunner, dispatch rider, machine-gunner. At 38 he went to Spain to cover the civil war as a Leftist newspaperman. He had the face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla...
Awakener. After two centuries Jonathan Edwards is chiefly remembered as the Calvinist preacher whose accounts of Hell scared New Englanders silly. Biographer Winslow revives his far more important distinction as a brilliant example of the New England mind. A diehard doctrinaire, Edwards originated a revivalist mass-technique and a revolutionary, individualistic concept of religion, thus unconsciously promoted a religious movement known as the Great Awakening. The movement swept away the old theocratic Calvinist dogmas of the Mathers, precipitated the separation of Church and State, paved the way for Emerson's transcendentalism...