Word: interventionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper, a careful reporter with good sources, described the expected manifesto as "directed against the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter. . . . [The U.S.] would be described as remote from, and completely alien to, the European problem. Obviously this would be aimed at providing ammunition for non-interventionist and isolationist sentiment...
...grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was plugging America First. Of his wife Lewis cracked to a Chicago lecture audience in 1939: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
...remaining 65 percent qualified their interventionist tendencies when they voted for "extending aid to England, China, and Russia on a constantly increasing scale...
This figure indicates a marked rise in interventionist sentiment since last year, according to the Yale News, which conducted the poll. 21 percent of the 2,692 men who voted favored "full unrestricted military and naval participation in the war," surpassing the 6 percent who held the same view last February...
...poll shows, in a class and school breakdown, that the class of 1944 and the Law School have the greatest amount of interventionist sentiment, 80 percent in each case favoring questions one and two. The Freshmen come close behind with 77 percent, Seniors with 75 percent, and Juniors with 73 percent. In the Graduate School 67 percent also concur, whereas the Divinity School maintained its "stay-out" attitude with only 41 percent favoring further isolation...