Word: isolationist
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...demands. By the ruses, subterfuges, and publicity of the steel companies, the public has been convinced that there is a coal shortage and that the strike is halting the defense effort. The union was bound to come into open conflict with the Administration, which is determined that the last isolationist labor leader shall not regain the power he has lost. With the public and the government so much opposed to its actions that there would be little squawk if President Roosevelt called out troops, the union is in a tough spot...
...religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
...magazine and a weekly paper-Scribner's Commentator and The Herald-which six months ago moved into their town from far-off Manhattan (TIME, May 26). The two publications settled down in a remodeled two-story building that used to be the old Sawyer Blacksmith Shop, to spread isolationist propaganda, but the townsfolk grew more & more puzzled...
...seemed queer to townspeople that the editorial staff should include two watch men. They could not figure out why "The Strangers" moved there in the first place. Some said it was because Lake Geneva is "Restricted to Gentiles"; some said that rich isolationist Lawyer Bill Trinke promoted the deal; Editor Eggleston said they picked the location for its peace & quiet...
...last week, it had become pretty plain that snobbery was not the word. The Government likewise puzzled over "The Strangers," particularly, it seemed, over the Commentator-Herald master mailing list, now said to comprise 500,000 names. Most of its names were supposedly supplied by isolationist Congressmen Wheeler, Nye, Fish, by Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, by America First and "other organizations." After big isolationist meetings the speakers are reported to have baled up tens of thousands of fan letters and sent them along to Scribner's Commentator and The Herald. There is nothing suspicious in having a mailing list...