Word: isolationist
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Republican Carlson, 53, has served eleven years in Congress, almost seven years on the Ways & Means Committee, is one of the committee's most conscientious members and an expert on taxes. He is a conservative on domestic policies, was an isolationist before...
...because his view coincides with the C.I.O.'s, whose leaders are solidly against the measure. Utah's scholarly Elbert D. Thomas, a painstaking legislator, likes to think twice before he makes a law. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, one of the heroes of the old anti-isolationist debates, thought "fact-finding" did not go far enough, that unions must be made more responsible...
...drafted into politics in December 1941 as Mr. King's choice to succeed the late Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe. At his first press conference, Minister St. Laurent told reporters: "I know nothing at all about politics." In his first election campaign, he proved it by telling his ultra-isolationist constituents in Quebec East that he would vote for conscription. But he was elected with a whopping majority. He scored another tremendous victory in last June's election...
Beer and Belligerence. The Lincoln Courier is housed in a brick building on Courthouse Square, with a game room upstairs where thirsty printers can slake their thirst with beer. The Courier is belligerently Republican, more isolationist than the Chicago Tribune, if possible...
...into the records of the Pearl Harbor investigation. They were of little value to Republicans, who had hoped to unearth some evidence that the late President had sought a way to wangle the U.S. into war. Cracked one Senator: "About the only thing this investigation has shown is how isolationist Franklin Roosevelt really...