Word: isolationists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
...people, dumb as we are, are ahead of the politicos on foreign policy. We have been in every major war, even with an isolationist policy. We can't get into any more of them than we have with an internationalist policy. So what in hell are we waiting for? ... Peoples perish because they are too dumb to survive. The only way to have peace is with an internationalist policeman's club...
...Democratic primaries. An active, aggressive left-winger named Hugh de Lacy won out over seven other Democratic candi dates for Congress. In an earlier election, P.A.C. was very helpful to ex-WLB Member Wayne Lyman Morse, a Republican, in an unexpected triumph over bumbling, ex-isolationist Senator Rufus Holman in Oregon...
...chapter describing his 1940 mission to Europe which was undertaken in the fragile hope that the "phony" war might somehow be halted before the real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close...
Married. Mrs. Ernest Lundeen, 48, comely widow of Minnesota's late isolationist Farmer-Labor Senator Lundeen; and Oregon's isolationist Republican Senator Rufus C. Holman, 67, defeated last May for renomination; in Minneapolis. Senator Holman courted Mrs. Lundeen between sessions of the Republican National Convention, where she appeared (on the fringes) with the stentorian, fascistic Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith...