Word: isolationist
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...barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously absent from the attending Senators was Idaho's Isolationist Borah. Absent from the crowded diplomatic gallery were the representatives of Germany, Italy, Japan. Conspicuously present on the floor was a captain of the willful opposition, Michigan's Vandenberg, who never turned his eyes from Franklin Roosevelt...
WASHINGTON--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today received an Administration neutrality revision bill containing minor concessions to President Roosevelt's isolationist opponents but providing for repeal of the mandatory arms embargo and the substitution of a modified cash-and-carry policy of dealing with belligerents...
...father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...Administration's floor fight for repeal of the embargo. After two years' agonized observation of Senate Leader Alben Barkley's dazed fumbling with New Deal legislation, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently turning to the slickest, most persuasive man in the Senate for leadership to combat an isolationist filibuster...
This week Congress convenes in a momentous session to decide the U. S. stand on neutrality for the opening of World War II. This week a FORTUNE survey will show that: 1) two-thirds of the American people are against a strict U. S. isolationist policy; only 25% oppose all trade with belligerents; 2) 83% want Britain and France to win the war; 65% thought they could (before Russia came in); 3) 17% are willing to send U. S. armed forces to fight for the Allies, and 20% favor helping them by all means short of war. Further FORTUNE findings...