Word: isolationist
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...merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...
Party Regularity. Conservative and isolationist by background (he voted against fortification of Guam and against the draft just before Pearl Harbor, still has to defend the votes in every election), Halleck soon broke with the defeated Willkie on foreign policy, but not before he outraged Indiana's Taft regulars by revealing a key political trait: in the interest of party unity and strength, he would battle for men and policies far more liberal than himself. His party-first drive, tirelessly applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party...
Halleck was the only man with a chance to oust Martin. He had the argument of experience (majority leader while Martin was Speaker in the 80th and 83rd Congresses). And his voting record oscillated enough to please both conservatives and liberals (isolationist until Pearl Harbor, strong backing for the war effort afterwards; firm opposition to Administration-backed social welfare measures until 1953, warm support of very similar measures afterwards...
...plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right-to-work. And in the Third District (in southeast Kansas, where lead and zinc mines are on their uppers), the Fourth District (including industrial Wichita) and the Sixth District (where Isolationist Wint Smith holds highly tenuous reign), Republican incumbents have no time for coasting...
Coffin, 39, handily won re-election to Congress as predicted. ¶ In the downstate First District, James C. ("Big Jim") Oliver, 63, a onetime G.O.P. isolationist, Coughlinite and Townsendite turned Democrat, defeated eight-term Republican Robert Hale by 3,000 votes to give Democrats two of Maine's three congressional seats. (Hale had squeaked by with only in votes...