Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote afterward. After getting out of the kitchen in 1924, he spent several unpaid years as co-owner and co-editor of the venerable (founded in 1848), unprofitable Independent, self-styled "Journal of Free Opinion." In Independent editorials, Herter crusaded for clean government, urged the U.S. to "shed its isolationist fears" and join the League of Nations. In 1929-30, after selling his interest in the Independent, he lectured at Harvard on international relations. Then, by what he calls a "pure fluke," he got into politics...
...Krals' "isolationist" attitude will not help anyone, least of all Tommy. I believe Mrs. Kral could contribute something to the world by teaching her son to respect the law. Perhaps she could really help Tommy and others like him by starting a school for "gifted" children in their area...
...merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...
Party Regularity. Conservative and isolationist by background (he voted against fortification of Guam and against the draft just before Pearl Harbor, still has to defend the votes in every election), Halleck soon broke with the defeated Willkie on foreign policy, but not before he outraged Indiana's Taft regulars by revealing a key political trait: in the interest of party unity and strength, he would battle for men and policies far more liberal than himself. His party-first drive, tirelessly applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party...
Halleck was the only man with a chance to oust Martin. He had the argument of experience (majority leader while Martin was Speaker in the 80th and 83rd Congresses). And his voting record oscillated enough to please both conservatives and liberals (isolationist until Pearl Harbor, strong backing for the war effort afterwards; firm opposition to Administration-backed social welfare measures until 1953, warm support of very similar measures afterwards...