Word: interventionist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like most present-day preachers, fiery, 71-year-old Dr. Morrison does not confine his preaching to theological or strictly religious concerns. In 1930 he tub-thumped in the Century for Prohibition, in 1940 he came out against a Roosevelt third term. Before Pearl Harbor, the Century was "non-interventionist," afterward "supported...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, standard bearer of U.S. Protestantism's intellectuals, militant interventionist before Pearl Harbor...
...Church assured itself of an honest, fearless representative in a country brimming with touchy problems. Before Pearl Harbor, Bishop Hurley was the most outspoken interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. As early as the spring of 1941. he made enemies among fellow Catholics by labeling the Nazis the chief enemies of the U.S. and the Church, and attacking those who feared Communists more. Early in 1943, when the Army was faced with a shortage of Catholic chaplains, Hurley accused some of his fellow U.S. bishops of an "inability to face the facts...
...Displeased. President of Dartmouth since 1916, 67-year-old Dr. Hopkins has been outspoken in his opinions before. In 1930 he was one of the first U.S. college presidents to decry Prohibition, and was strongly interventionist before Pearl Harbor...
...youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...