Word: internationalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
Another Dewey campaign attitude was hinted at by able, internationalist Representative James Wadsworth of New York, who emerged from a long talk with the Governor to say: "We discussed methods of making this country strong and keeping it strong, in a military sense, after...
...people, dumb as we are, are ahead of the politicos on foreign policy. We have been in every major war, even with an isolationist policy. We can't get into any more of them than we have with an internationalist policy. So what in hell are we waiting for? ... Peoples perish because they are too dumb to survive. The only way to have peace is with an internationalist policeman's club...
...Dined in Albany with Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the phrasemaker of Mackinac; four days later saw Vermont's internationalist Senator Warren R. Austin. Both Senators said they saw eye-to-eye with Dewey on foreign policy...
Internationally minded Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota complained of its "rubber words"; New Jersey's Willkieite Governor Walter E. Edge demanded it be made much stronger-meaning more internationalist. The sharpest criticism came from ex-Candidate Wendell Willkie. He compared the foreign-policy plank to the one on which Warren Harding ran in 1920: "The Republicans won the election of 1920. A Republican President, claiming that he in no way repudiated the Party's platform, immediately after the election announced that the League of Nations was dead. A Republican President elected under the proposed platform of 1944 could...