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Gaunt Amos Richards Eno Pinchot, participator with Brother Gifford in founding the Bull Moose party, father of the late Actress Rosamond (once The Nun in The Miracle), who killed herself in 1938, longtime anti-New Dealer, onetime America Firster, whose 68th birthday fell the day before Pearl Harbor, slashed several veins in one of his arms and was taken to a Westport, Conn, hospital. His condition: critical...
...talked too much about New York; their husbands too much about isolationism. Townsfolk simplified it by calling them snobs. By summer "The Strangers" found more congenial company in such homes as the 40-room mansion of Socialite Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank, ex-Democratic Committeewoman and No. i female America-Firster; the summer castles of the Mortons (salt), the Cranes (plumbing); the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags (washing machines) from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva...
Rated No. 1 Catholic publication through its influence on teachers and clergymen, the Jesuit weekly America, edited by 52-year-old Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J. opposed the war and everything connected with it, including the draft. The Catholic World, a Paulist monthly edited by 64-year-old America-Firster Father James M. Gillis, is much more isolationist than America, though like almost every other isolationist Catholic publication it makes a distinction between national defense and intervention in World...
...September 1940, when as an America Firster General Wood first wound his horn against U.S. interference in foreigners' affairs, he had every reason to believe that he was embarking on a popular and respectable crusade...
Gardiner, in answer, stressed the fact the that law's repeal, would have little effect in insuring transportation for a larger supply of goods to the embattled democracies. "Only four percent of lease-lend ear goes were lost," stated the America Firster, "a figure too small to invoice arming of all merchant ships, even if such arming were possible...