Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other findings of Pollsters Connelly and Field: the stay-at-homes were more ignorant of public questions, more isolationist, more complacent about political evils...
...night before election day it rained 3.07 inches in Crosby, North Dakota. Next day rain still fell. In many a western county, where North Dakota farmers were isolated by impassable mud, no vote was cast. This was the best possible weather for Gerald P. Nye, the slickest isolationist in the U.S. Senate...
...Senate seat (TIME, June 19). Among city voters, his strongest competition was able Lynn U. Stambaugh, international-minded Fargo lawyer and onetime National Commander of the American Legion. But most of North Dakota's decisive rural vote was slated to go to Congressman Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary to most North Dakota dopesters, made a surprisingly strong race; he got 37,129 votes. Burdick, stuck in the deep sludge...
...first time in 18 years, North Dakota's slick Gerald Prentice Nye faced a real threat to his well-warmed seat in the U.S. Senate. On June 27, Congress' foremost isolationist goes into the hardest primary fight of his career...
Bill Langer's choice to beat Nye is Usher Lloyd Burdick, 65, for the last ten years a plodding, mild-mannered U.S. Representative whose hobby is collecting and rebinding old volumes of Wild West Americana. Usher Burdick is a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick...