Word: internationalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grumpily isolationist New York Daily News, which thought that the Senator had delivered a mortal blow to the Republican Party; the Daily News demanded a new "nationalist" (isolationist) party. Pundit Walter Lippmann thought it one of the few speeches likely to "affect the course of events." John Foster Dulles, internationalist lawyer and Thomas E. Dewey's foreign policy adviser, praised the speech for divorcing the problem of controlling the Axis from the larger problem of keeping the peace...
Next day the Senate Republican conference, to fill the two Republican vacancies on the all-important Foreign Relations Committee, appointed New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
Sweeper. In Minneapolis, the discovery of a 10,000-vote tabulation error put snaggle-toothed William J. Gallagher, 69, a retired street sweeper, and Henry George, single-taxer, into the House. By sweeping out Richard Pillsbury Gale, 44, a sense-making Republican internationalist, Gallagher will trade a $25.48 a month city pension for a $10,000-a-year...
...particular difficulties the New Dealers had in trying to defeat Representative Luce were two: 1) more Wilsonian than the opposite, she was on record as a consistent internationalist; 2) as a Representative she had such a consistent pro-labor voting record that the P.A.C. had no effective labor arguments against her, was thus confined to less effective issues...
Nutmeg State. For the second time in a gubernatorial election, Connecticut's able, internationalist G.O.P. Governor Raymond Baldwin took the measure of the Democrats' New Dealing, ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley...