Word: isolationist
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Appropriations for a contiuance of the European Recovery Program are much safer under Democratic control than under Republican. Although Dewey, Vandenberg, and other leaders have supported this program effectively, the isolationist wing of the Republican party is still strong and would probably have made its influence felt...
...most part, the Democrat won by large majorities, and produced some astounding surprises. Paul Douglas, a through-going internationalist, beat the Illinois veteran, Senator Curley Brooks, an equally thorough-going isolationist. Deleware's Senator Buck was upset, and in Idaho, conservative Senator Dworshak was edged...
From the Fall of '12 to the Spring of 1916 isolationist sentiment set in at the College. A Spring poll gave Roosevelt 660 votes to Wilson's 591 and Hughes' 348. When T. R. did not run, Hughes was the beneficiary, piling up 1140 tallies in November to 627 for Wilson. Harvard was further out of line with national sentiment than the Eastern colleges, which gave Hughes an average of only 10 votes to 9 for Wilson...
Illinois. There was little doubt that arch-isolationist Senator "Curly" Brooks would easily defeat the Democrats' leftish Paul Douglas, who ignored the party regulars, doggedly waged a futile one-man campaign from his station-wagon jeep. But the Republicans' handsome playboy, Governor Dwight Green, was facing real opposition from political amateur Adlai Stevenson (TIME, March 8).Backed by the nominally independent (but actually pro-Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration...
...office. Eight months ago he launched a one-man crusade which carried him through blizzards and bitter winter cold to every corner of the state. An investment banker, former Legion post commander, and vigorous internationalist, he will level his chief fire on Big Ed's conservatism and longstanding isolationist record...