Word: holt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call is Carl Losey, but his name did not appear on the masthead. Neither did any other name. Devoted, according to its own statement, "to enactments of the Congress," Roll-Call was a hodgepodge of approving quotations from the speeches of isolationists like Senator Burton Wheeler, ex-Senator Rush Holt, unsigned attacks on Franklin Roosevelt, Federal spending, aid for Britain, the U. S. Army, Jews, Communists, Chinese relief. Roll-Call's slogan, twice-printed in bold type: "Keep America Christian...
...voting strength in the Senate was small. There were five more Republican Senators than there had been a year ago-28 in all. There were eleven brand-new Senators. Youngest: Nevada's handsome Berkeley Bunker, 34. Conspicuously missing was more than one doughty lawmaker: Ashurst, Burke, Minton, Holt...
...Roosevelt could bring about a "just peace" in Europe if he were willing, that the President could force Hitler into peace by threatening to enter the war on the British side if the peace terms weren't "reasonable." Senators Tydings of Maryland, Vandenberg of Michigan, McCarran of Nevada, Holt of West Virginia, Johnson of Colorado all chorused this sentiment, with bass and tenor variations. Next morning the New York Times demanded to know what they meant by "a just peace": just to whom? To The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Poland, France, CzechoSlovakia? Walter Lippmann asked how Hitler could...
...devoutly followed Lindbergh's foreign policies, denounced Franklin Roosevelt's. Of the last six issues of Scribner's Commentator, five have contained stories by or about Lindbergh. December's issue had an article by Henry Ford. Other contributors are such famed isolationists as Senators Rush Holt, Worth Clark, Burt Wheeler, General Robert E. Wood...
RAYMOND W. HOLT...