Word: isolationist
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...years ago, ex-Prodigy Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, received a longdistance call. It was from ex-Isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Said he: "What's this world government? If I knew, I might be for it." Replied Hutchins: "Call back in about two years. We're working...
...which will be the truth." If the voters know the truth, he added, they "will not turn the Government over to a bunch of reactionaries who are trying to take us back to 1896. Conditions are too grave in the world at the present time to put an isolationist in the White House...
Taylor's record in & out of Congress has been nearly everything Henry Wallace could ask for. He was a rank isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls...
...noisiest journalistic joust of the decade, the battle began three days before Pearl Harbor, when a rich newcomer, Marshall Field, started his liberal Chicago Sun to fight McCormick's well-entrenched, isolationist Tribune. One bitter morning last week, while frozen-fingered printers picketed Field's plant on windswept Wacker Drive, the battle ended. The Sun gave up the ghost and merged with Field's afternoon tabloid Times. This week, when the Sun & Times went on the newsstands, there were few recognizable Sunbeams...
...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...