Word: isolationist
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...American Continent. Already the beaches of the Atlantic were stained with the brown blood of ships that could not be spared. Now oily hemorrhages spread on the flats of two great rivers. One of them was the St. Lawrence. Between its wildly beautiful banks, in the midriff of stubbornly isolationist Quebec, the German crept and waited. He nailed two ships in inland waters, and Quebec began searching its soul as it had never searched before...
Montana's arch-isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler voted against repeal of the arms embargo, against Lend-Lease, against draft extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay...
When, after Pearl Harbor, the Merry-Go-Round column went after the isolationist press, Cissie began to cool toward Pearson & Allen. This spring she fired Pearson's present wife, Luvie Moore, a member of the Times-Herald staff who had been one of her close friends. She also fired Drew's brother Leon, a Times-Herald columnist. Adding insult to injury, she hired Luvie's former husband George Abell, the one man Drew and Luvie can not abide...
...plan well. But the man on the hottest spot was salty, profane Jerry Land. Editors and officials called for his head. The demand for a more effective manager of the shipbuilding program most frequently mentioned Joe Kennedy, onetime head of the Maritime Commission, also a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. His name bobbed up again, from a quarter that surprised nobody, when G.O.P. Chairman Joe Martin, called for "some efficient, capable man of proved experience like . . . Joseph P. Kennedy...
...muscled six feet, if he squared his stooped shoulders. Known as a cracker-box humorist and a bull's-eye tobacco spitter, drawling, beaked Bulow won the moniker of "Silent Bill" by speaking on the Senate floor only six times in two terms. He was a pre-war isolationist and "horse-sense" appeaser. He was a sponsor of the illfated, ill-famed Pensions for Congress bill, later weaseled...