Word: isolationist
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...Isolationist? "My opponent says that the heavy hand of isolationism governed our country in the 1920s. Does he mean to apply that term to the three great Republican Secretaries of State: Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg and Henry L. Stimson, his own present Secretary of War? If so, I am afraid he has a very convenient memory...
...that we really had our last chance to bring order out of the chaos of international money exchange and trade. The London Economic Conference had been labored over for months by Republican Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. . . . Mr. Roosevelt deliberately scuttled that conference. That was the most completely isolationist action ever taken by an American President in our 150 years of history...
Idaho. Republican Governor Clarence A. Bottolfsen had a good chance for the Senate against Cowboy Glenn Taylor, who beat Isolationist D. Worth Clark in the Democratic primary...
...internationalist-minded audience heartily booed the isolationist names including the McCormick, Patterson, Gannett and Hearst press...
...isolationist Chicago Tribune, which loves Tom Dewey so much because it hates Franklin Roosevelt more, last week chided its Chosen Instrument. "We think Governor Dewey made a mistake when he accepted so large a part of the Roosevelt program.... He will regret these commitments; they will not win him any votes...