Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall grass, the word had been that Indiana's Charlie Halleck was the choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
...Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune, the story rated a Page One banner headline. The Tribune's story: a $15 million-a-year subsidy from the Federal Government had been secretly arranged as a "reward" to a selected few U.S. newspapers, magazines, book publishers and film companies "which shouted the loudest for the 6 billion dollar Marshall Plan...
...Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
Historian Charles A. Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard...
Four peace-seeking Methodist readers laid a modest proposal in the lap of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's mighty, isolationist Chicago Tribune. Would the Tribune please cooperate, they wrote, in "the creation of a favorable public opinion...