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Married. Gerald P. Nye, 48 (this week), North Dakota's recently divorced isolationist junior Senator; and Marguerite Johnson, 32, Rock Island. Ill. high-school teacher; at Iowa Falls. Iowa. They first met in Estes Park, Colo., when the Senator climbed out of his car to help Miss Johnson repair a tire...
...neither an isolationist nor a pacifist organization--one of the signers of this letter is attending the convention as a delegate of the HSU. On the contrary the Student Union invites to its discussions all students, of whatever policy, who wish to unite in fighting the present hysterical trend towards a blind entry into the European war. The Union is trying, not to turn its back on the crisis, but to evolve a program of domestic and foreign policy which will insure that civil liberties and social legislation are preserved and extended in America; and that America's weight...
...going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact on the traditionally isolationist Middle West in finding its harbors linked to the docks of Amsterdam. If the St. Lawrence Seaway had half the effects claimed for it, the inland U. S. would be a vastly shrunken area, since even Duluth would be part of the Eastern seaboard...
Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...
...Uncensored is an isolationist weekly newsletter of which Quincy Howe is a sponsor; he classes it among propaganda letters that "peddle dope to addicts."Advises Radio Commentator Howe: "If you don't like radio commentators, pass them up. You will not be missing much...