Word: interventionist
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...great many listeners, in the audience, there seemed something fishy in this kind of talk. Many a convinced interventionist, listening to the deflated language of General Wood, dismissed his appeal as an attempt to put the President on the spot. Many an isolationist, listening to the President's lofty statement, felt that the big words were inflated, covering some other purpose...
...interventionist, and necessity is my mother...
...fact remained that LaGuardia faced a real fight for reelection. As a result of his manifold defense activities and many frank utterances, he is firmly labeled interventionist-a fact which of itself is not calculated to win him many votes among the older generation of New York's 1,070,355 Italians, 600,084 Germans, and particularly its 535,034 Irish...
...poll of isolationist sentiment among practicing Catholics has yet been made. That it would run as high as Catholic clergymen's response to their poll is unlikely. Lay Catholics include a strong group of Roosevelt supporters; they also read the secular press, which last week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...
While the crowd was moving inside the Hall to hear Wheeler speak on isolation, the picket line was invaded by a rival group carrying America First placards. Special instruction on non-violence given the interventionist picketers prevented a clash...