Word: isolationist
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...Europe. As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Borah is a sort of No. 2 Secretary of State. He is as little traveled as President Hoover is widely traveled. He has never been to Europe or Asia or Africa or South America or Australia. He is an isolationist in practice as well as in principle. His critics contend that his very refusal to go abroad reveals a closed, darkened mind on world affairs...
...most contests between professionals, the formal issue of the Deneen-Mc-Cormick contest was one remote from the man-in-the-street, in this case U. S. entry into the World Court. Mrs. McCormick, like her isolationist husband before her, is against it. Senator Deneen is for it. As in most Illinois campaigns, there was mudslinging. Mrs. McCormick found her mud in Senator Deneen's friendship for Joseph ("Diamond") Esposito, Chicago underworldling...
Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late Mark A. Hanna (Republican Senator from Ohio) and widow of Medill McCormick (Republican Senator from Illinois), announced that she would support Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, who is seeking re-election in his state. Senator McCormick was a confirmed isolationist. Senator McKinley voted for the World Court. Senator Borah and other isolationists recently made speeches in Chicago against the World Court. Evidently Mrs. McCormick did not approve this attack on Mr. McKinley in his home territory...
...preparing their plans. Finally, on the same day, the latter two announced their candidacies. Both announced themselves as Progressives? contrasts to Mr. Coolidge. Mr. McAdoo was for remaking the railways; Senator Johnson was for remaking foreign policy on strictly isolationist lines. Mr. McAdoo's effort grew, although politicians shook their heads and muttered : "He will never be able to win the necessary two-thirds of a Democratic convention." Senator Johnson's candidacy was on the wane from the first; since he belonged to the same Party as Mr. Coolidge, the President's accretion was his diminution. And the President...
Unless one is a rabid isolationist determined to let the rest of the world go hang, one must admit that the Bok Prize Plan is one the whole a sound and well-reasoned document. The first provision--to join the World Court--has already received wide-spread public approval, and the many refinements which have been made upon whether this does or does not mean getting sucked into the League of Nations are cast aside by the second provision. The latter provides for a gradual widening of American cooperation with the League which would lead eventually to membership pari passu...