Word: isolationist
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Isolation support of candidate Willkie was without reason. Professor Taylor maintained, because "from the isolationist standpoint, the real sinner was surely Mr. Willkie." It is the duty of the opposition, he explained, to open up the fundamental issues, yet Mr. Willkie ignored the issue that was so plain to isolationists...
Engaged. Marguerite Johnson, 32, teacher in the Rock Island, Ill. Central Junior High School; and North Dakota's isolationist junior Senator, Gerald P. Nye, 47. Senator Nye's first wife divorced him last March...
...more than usual interest to U. S. audiences is the appearance of John Lodge. Grandson of Massachusetts' famed isolationist Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of its current, handsome Senator of the same name, Lodge is a former Harvardman and Manhattan lawyer with a brief, obscure Hollywood movie career...
...This board has alarmed many Americans, because it appears to ally us with a warring country. But our nine billions for defense, our super-navy now in process of building, our conscription for one-year training, and our goal of 50,000 planes a year make Canada look rabidly isolationist by comparison. Actually, Canada has changed from a British outpost to a closely-tied satellite of America, and right now it is a weak flank. This presents the U. S. with a paradoxical problem. Canada, which over a year ago declared war on the dictators, is now, because...
John Lewis had done more than most men to vest new powers in the Presidency; he now denounced a President who would cling to those powers ("Personal craving for power, the overweening, abnormal and selfish craving for increased power is a thing to alarm and dismay"). A genuine isolationist, he spoke from the heart on the issue most likely to do Campaigner Roosevelt immediate harm ("His motivation and his objective...