Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Isolationist Colleges. The board has also persuaded the Air Force to set up a $40,000 scholarship program for the Air University at Maxwell Field. Largely through the board's contacts with the Federal Government, the South now gets 14% of all research contracts (seven years...
...city planning, hospital management, marine science, forestry, foreign affairs. It is considering a faculty exchange program and a combined library service. If all goes according to plan, says Ivey, the South's colleges and universities will eventually become a sort of education NATO: "There is nothing more isolationist than our colleges, and there is no greater barrier to sound development than the generally accepted notion of institutional sovereignty...
...Jack Kennedy has spent the last year charming Massachusetts' voters, lately at tea parties organized by women Democrats. They brew a big dish of tea, invite scores of citizens to meet his mother and his pretty sisters. Then Jack shows up to shake hands. The "internationalist" son of "isolationist" Businessman Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1937-40), Jack has deep family roots in Massachusetts politics: his maternal grandfather, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, was twice elected mayor of Boston, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Korea, in Dewey's itinerary, is certainly not set down as a "Truman war," the gibing phrase of isolationist Republicans, although the governor feels that weak U.S. Asiatic policy encouraged the Communist attack. By grasshopper plane, he hopped across the ridge-backed front, talking with U.S. officers and men. He is "deeply convinced" of the Tightness of the Korean war: it is the safeguard of all free Asia...
...doggedly isolationist New York Daily News, the nation's biggest newspaper (circ. 2,251,430), surprised nobody by endorsing Taft as the man who can "start this country toward salvation from the Fascism and Socialism of Truman's misnamed Fair Deal." The News's candidate for Vice President: Dwight Eisenhower...