Word: isolationist
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...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...
...tall grass, the word had been that Indiana's Charlie Halleck was the choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
...even the baffled knew that the man who won the strange games at Philadelphia could be as important to them as their own rulers. Maybe more so. "Whether the next U.S. President is isolationist or internationalist,"* wrote Tokyo's Asahi, "will have far more effect on the actual livelihood of the Japanese than the question of whether the next [Japanese] Premier is Shigeru Yoshida or Hitoshi Ashida...
...Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune, the story rated a Page One banner headline. The Tribune's story: a $15 million-a-year subsidy from the Federal Government had been secretly arranged as a "reward" to a selected few U.S. newspapers, magazines, book publishers and film companies "which shouted the loudest for the 6 billion dollar Marshall Plan...