Word: isolationist
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...public servant who has always accepted the facts of war as facts of life is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. In pre-Pearl Harbor days he drove isolationist Congressmen to frenzy with his blunt warnings of imminent danger. Last week he spoke out again, on the much-evaded, politically ticklish question of drafting 18-to-20 year olds...
...like taking up the cudgels for Editor Ingersoll, particularly after his attempt to try his case in his own paper. Yet all of them knew that, for better or for worse, Editor Ingersoll had given PM its character and direction-just as truly as Bertie McCormick has to the isolationist Chicago Tribune or Joe Patterson to the New York Daily News-and that to draft him was a blow at a wing of the press which also has a right to freedom and continued existence...
...skyrocketing prices rob labor of real wages, that in World War I inflation ate away all but 18% of the purchasing power of the 160% wage increase won by wily old Samuel Gompers. But he also knows that John L. Lewis is crouching vengefully behind him, ready to spring. Isolationist Lewis made a symbol of $1 a day when he won it for his miners last year, and if pro-war Phil Murray fails to get $1 a day for his steelmen, it will be a real handicap in his fight against the Lewis challenge to his leadership...
Pragmatist From Kansas. The evidence of Clapper's levelheaded common sense shows not only in his column but in his attitude toward his trade. An isolationist until Munich, Clapper was roundly berated by some readers when he thereafter veered toward Roosevelt's foreign policy. Said he: "I try to learn from events...
Accompanied by a onetime New York World-Telegram reporter, Dorothy Walker, Mrs. Curtiss ranged Iowa in search of the usual. The two Easterners noted that Iowans resent being considered isolationist, that the women apply makeup spottily but have fine complexions, that nearly everyone avoided the word "war" but almost nobody forgot that the war was being fought...