Word: firsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of the Dewey announcement, MacArthur supporters had whipped themselves up to a lather of confidence. Gathering in Milwaukee's Plankinton House, 200 MacArthurmen from 19 states met to listen to jubilant speeches by Wisconsin's Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman and ex-America Firster Lansing Hoyt, national chairman of the MacArthur-for-President clubs. The delegates talked hopefully of winning all of Wisconsin's 27 convention votes...
...handed the business over to his only, beloved son, Edsel. But he was still the real boss, striding along the great assembly lines, sitting, birdlike and domineering, among the empire's reverent executives. Once again he cried out against the stupidity of war. He was an America Firster. But when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, he turned his Rouge plant into an arsenal. He put his company on a seven-day week...
Charles A. Lindbergh, onetime America Firster, who used to make mind-our-own-business-and-stay-out-of-war speeches, raised his voice after long silence and plumped for "a consistent American policy toward Europe," i.e., full aid to all "peoples who believe in ... a way of life that is basically similar to our own." Observed Lindbergh: "We have destroyed Nazi Germany only to find that ... we have strengthened Communist Russia. . .. We must re-establish and protect the ideals we believe in. ... It may require the use of military force. But no necessary cost is too high...
Christian Veterans of America. Headed by Frederick Kister, onetime America Firster and friend of Yorkville's Joe McWilliams. Its National Chaplain: Arthur W. Terminiello, Roman Catholic priest suspended by his bishop for "detrimental" activities, sometimes known as the "Father Coughlin of the South...
...included women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...