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...take exception to this statement? "In the 25th Pennsylvania district, Representative Charles I. Faddis, Democrat, profoundly isolationist, named widely as a Congressional obstructionist (TIME, May 25), had insisted on his right to an X-card (for personal, unlimited gasoline supply). Six days later he was soundly beaten by Dr. Robert Grant Furlong." (TIME, June...
...obstructionist and isolationist tactics are concerned, here is his record on war bills: for the Draft Law, for Lend-Lease, for Axis Ship Seizure and for extension of the Draft Law. With the vote turnout as small as it was, the X-card issue was hardly a factor; Congressman Faddis was defeated almost solely by a vengeance vote of Labor...
Whether he asked for it or not, heavyset, heavily solemn Governor Wilson had the backing of the isolationist Chicago Tribune. Chiding Thornburg for tying "himself to Willkie's kite," the Tribune proclaimed: "At the Republican State headquarters there is a natural frigidity towards Willkie." Frigid or not, Iowa rejected Willkie-backed Thornburg for Tribune-backed Wilson...
...this summary an observer spoke last week only for the University of Washington, in one of a dozen pre-commencement reports by TIME correspondents on the last days of school at U.S. colleges. But all other reports tallied. From the lately isolationist University of Wisconsin and traditionally indifferent Harvard to the party-loving University of Kansas, undergraduates were alike in calling this war a policing job. They mobilized for war far more deliberately than the hot-blooded undergraduates of 1917. But they mobilized to see it through...