Word: isolationist
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Though a Wilsonian and Rooseveltian Democrat, Bowles was an early member of the isolationist America First Committee, as were many other New Dealers. His eagerness for public service got him at length into Washington, where he was F.D.R.'s price administrator and Truman's boss of the Office of Economic Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest...
...Capitol Hill, twelve of them in the Senate. Starting off as a small-town schoolteacher and ardent fisherman, Mundt tried his hand as a college speech instructor, farmer and insurance agent, broke into politics as a member of South Dakota's Game and Fish Commission. A prewar isolationist turned internationalist, he bears right domestically-except on farm policy, where he favors liberal supports...
...predilections as well as his name. Certainly nothing in the background or outward appearance of the cool, reserved, self-assured, but above all politically conservative and proudly Republican Middle-sex graduate indicated that he would one day equal the elder Lodge's reputation by repudiating his grandfather's isolationist ideals and working within the United Nations to secure world peace...
Tensions between the Union and the rest of South Africa will increase steadily during the next few years, according to Spiro. He described the dominant elements of the Union as strongly isolationist. Leaders of several neighboring countries, he noted, have developed a systematic plan of attack involving boycotts and other economic sanctions...
...although his Democratic opponent for the Senate, the late James Michael Curley, belittled his youth and called him "Little Boy Blue," Lodge, at 34, won an easy victory. In his grandfather's old Senate seat, Lodge stuck to the family's rock-bound traditions, followed an isolationist course -although he advocated military preparedness. But with U.S. entry into World War II, he immediately volunteered for military service (the first Senator to see combat since the Civil War). After action with an armored force detachment in North Africa and as a liaison officer with French forces in Europe, Lieut...