Word: isolationist
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...days in jail and a $200 fine for okaying the editorial. Readers applauded his and the P-D's insistent courage, and the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the convictions in 1941. When F.D.R. traded 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Coghlan lit into him in a hysterically isolationist editorial (Dictator Roosevelt Commits An Act of War). In 1942, during the scrap drive, Coghlan recommended that "some dark night" somebody steal the three ancient cannons in front of the Capitol at Jefferson City; when somebody did, Governor (now Senator) Forrest Donnell ordered Coghlan's arrest for larceny (he was later...
Armed with Roosevelt's assurance that he would soon be moving into Woodring's job, Assistant Secretary Johnson began acting like the No. 1 man in fact. Isolationist Harry Woodring resisted every move toward U.S. intervention abroad, and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson fought him at every turn. With the connivance of the President, Johnson tabled important matters that passed through his office until Woodring left town; then he rammed them through "by direction of the Acting Secretary of War." He let it be known openly in the War Department that he was "only in the Assistant Secretary...
...Cannon blast apparently had no influence on the House, one way or the other; it was just a low-order expression in an isolationist side street. When the vote came, the House refused to boost the Navy's air appropriations and rolled through the full $15.9 billion appropriation unchanged...
...worry. For 43 days, he and Progressive Conservative Leader George Drew had been wrestling over every issue. Tories and Liberals, with an eye to this year's election, had been swinging at each other at every opportunity. Would Drew oppose the pact, and thereby harvest votes in isolationist Quebec...
Died. Thomas Pryor Gore, 78, Oklahoma's onetime Democratic Senator (1907-21, 1931-37); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Totally blind from the age of 14, Isolationist Gore was one of the first two Senators elected when Oklahoma became a state, amazed his colleagues with his ability to rattle off facts & figures from memory on the Senate floor...