Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Busch set himself the task of discussing the world's most-written-about head of state. He approached the subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt with precisely the same mixture of curiosity, detachment and aplomb that he took to Riad. The result is, with the possible exception of Gerald W. Johnson's Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat, the most balanced and readable book about the President that has yet appeared...
...late isolationist Farmer-Labor Senator Lundeen; and Oregon's isolationist Republican Senator Rufus C. Holman, 67, defeated last May for renomination; in Minneapolis. Senator Holman courted Mrs. Lundeen between sessions of the Republican National Convention, where she appeared (on the fringes) with the stentorian, fascistic Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith...
...fight ahead. Next November he faces the state's popular, third-term Democratic Governor: tall, stooped John Moses. And some 60,000 Republicans, roughly two-thirds of all the state's GOP primary voters, had testified at the 'polls last week that they are anti-Gerald...
...night before election day it rained 3.07 inches in Crosby, North Dakota. Next day rain still fell. In many a western county, where North Dakota farmers were isolated by impassable mud, no vote was cast. This was the best possible weather for Gerald P. Nye, the slickest isolationist in the U.S. Senate...
...last week's three-cornered Republican primary, Gerald Nye put up the toughest fight of his 18-year career to hold his Senate seat (TIME, June 19). Among city voters, his strongest competition was able Lynn U. Stambaugh, international-minded Fargo lawyer and onetime National Commander of the American Legion. But most of North Dakota's decisive rural vote was slated to go to Congressman Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary...