Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Dakota voters witnessed something new this week. As John Bricker's campaign special chuffed through the state, two Senatorial candidates clambered aboard. One was slick, slippery Gerald Prentice Nye, 51, the old-line, Old Guard isolationist who has warmed one of North Dakota's Senate seats for 19 long years. The other was bespectacled Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, 54, whom Gerald Nye tossed out by 972 votes in a hot, three-cornered GOPrimary last June (TIME, July 10). Stambaugh, an able Fargo lawyer, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion, a man who believes deeply...
...strategy called for alternate introductions by the candidates. Both jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...
Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 42, who resigned his Senate seat last February to do some real fighting overseas, captured a four-man Nazi patrol singlehanded. The grandson of famed post-War I Isolationist Senator Henry Cabot Lodge let his jeep-driver tell the tale: "Colonel Lodge . . . had spotted the Germans a long way off. When we got close to them, Colonel Lodge pulled out a pistol, leaped out of the jeep, and the prisoners threw their hands...
John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, who hates the New Deal and loves to gloat, found something to gloat about last week. Having just read a supplement to the ardently internationalist New Republic taxing Thomas E. Dewey with onetime isolationist leanings and general inconsistency in foreign policy, Columnist O'Donnell had dug out of the files a 1935 statement by the same weekly. After noting current proposals for new U.S. armaments, it said...