Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kathleen Norris, 71, novelist and a onetime America Firster, plunked for Taft. Said she: "Most women lean toward an isolationist policy. We feel a lot more confidence in Mr. Taft keeping us out of entangling alliances than any of the other possible candidates...
...Johnston moved into Nebraska to set things up. He called Congressman Howard Buffett home to Omaha to help run the show. Johnston-Buffett & Co. made 75,000 telephone calls for Taft, mailed 60,000 pieces of literature, showing how to write in his name. Buffett appealed to the considerable isolationist sentiment in Nebraska. Said he: "Eisenhower ... is the candidate of those who would have American boys die as conscript cannon-fodder thousands of miles across the ocean...
...offended the New England sense of fairness by insinuating that Ike is a captive of the Administration and could not campaign against it. Many an observer also concluded that his speeches about Ike were a mistake in another way: they aroused the Eisenhower supporters to charge that Taft is "isolationist." The voters of New Hampshire are not isolationist...
...become spokesman for a particular group. Some passages in his later speeches were ambiguous and inconsistent with his own basic line of thought and action. These ambiguities, plus the distortion of MacArthur by his friends of the Hearst and McCormick press, led some to conclude that MacArthur was an isolationist; others, that he was an imperialist. Both tags were absurd, yet the figure of MacArthur in U.S. life was neither as clear nor as large in December as it had been in April...
...which was once called isolationist, this week closed its books on history's greatest single act of international generosity: the Marshall Plan. In 45 months, ECA spent $12 billion-the equivalent of $80 apiece for every man, woman & child in the U.S.-to heal Europe's war wounds, to start up factories, and to rescue from fear, apathy and poverty millions of Europeans and Asians. Biggest beneficiaries: Britain, $2.8 billion,* France $2.3 billion, Germany and Italy $1.3 billion each. Tiny Holland-with an even $1 billion - got more than the whole of Asia...