Word: firsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election season, Lar Daly of Chicago puts on his Uncle Sam suit and runs for office on the America First ticket - any office, from the presidency on down. In 1959, when Firster Daly was a candidate in Chicago's mayoralty race, he learned that CBS had televised the other Daley, Mayor Richard, as he greeted a Latin American diplomat at the airport. Invoking Section 315 (a) of the Communications Act of 1934, Lar Daly demanded - and got - equal time on television to promote his home-canned candidacy...
Like all satire, Costigan's humor dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...
...Britain as an independent national state. It means the end of 1,000 years of history. It means the end of the Commonwealth. For how could we serve as the center of the Commonwealth when we had become a province of Europe?" More and more resembling a Tory empire-firster, Gaitskell drew massive applause by reminding the party of the Commonwealth's support in two World Wars. "We at least," he intoned, "do not intend to forget Vimy Ridge* and Gallipoli...
...America Firster...
TIME [Dec. 15] referred to me as an America Firster, as if that diatribe covered a multitude of sins. It so happens that I never was a member of the once numerous and powerful America First Organization. However, I am proud to be called an America Firster today...