Word: isolationist
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...chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has a much sharper mind than his flowing white mane, flowing string tie and flowing oratory indicate. ¶ Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. 62, Republican Senator from Michigan, a harness maker's son, who got into politics via journalism by helping Isolationist Warren Harding write campaign speeches, and who has become (with Secretary Byrnes) the architect of practical postwar U.S. internationalism...
...militant variety, has taken to the field again under the picturesque cloak of "American Action Incorporated." Born eighteen months ago in Chicago, this organization has enhanced its influence by inserting paid advertisements in newspapers throughout the country. As the legitimate offspring of the "America First Committee" of pre-war isolationist renown, it has sought in the November elections to keep out of office "Quislings" who "pretend to be friends to all, particularly the working man, but actually take orders from, or collaborate with those enemies of our government." This offhand indictment of all who look red or alien foreshadows...
...Chicago Tribune," it pretends to be the right wing's answer to the Political Action Committee. Its chairman is one Edward A. Hayes, an old "America First Committee" coadjutor who considers himself an expert on communism and subversive activities. At present, while heavily financed by the Republican isolationist bloc in the middle west, "American Action" has been soliciting contributions and a mailing list all over the country with which to disseminate the bacillus of isolation...
...course, as the Union League prophets knew, the undiscriminating sun would shine on all Republicans. The Chicago Tribune's isolationist Robert McCormick would bask in it. But the Democratic sun had warmed the backs of even stranger interlopers. This was one of the unpleasant and confusing results of a two-party system...
...Indiana, it means the end of Louis Ludlow, aging, ailing, rabid isolationist...