Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right-to-work. And in the Third District (in southeast Kansas, where lead and zinc mines are on their uppers), the Fourth District (including industrial Wichita) and the Sixth District (where Isolationist Wint Smith holds highly tenuous reign), Republican incumbents have no time for coasting...
Coffin, 39, handily won re-election to Congress as predicted. ¶ In the downstate First District, James C. ("Big Jim") Oliver, 63, a onetime G.O.P. isolationist, Coughlinite and Townsendite turned Democrat, defeated eight-term Republican Robert Hale by 3,000 votes to give Democrats two of Maine's three congressional seats. (Hale had squeaked by with only in votes...
Will the government be able to keep the population directed toward Communism? This is a major unanswered question. Ordinary Russians show signs of a to-hell-with-Communism, give-us-more-consumer-goods attitude that the government cannot ignore, and even of old-style Midwestern isolationist resentment against Soviet "giveaways" to China and India. But in any case, we must face this generalization: any changes in the Soviet Union within the next few years will be within the Soviet system and not against it. The Soviet people do not want to be liberated...
...with accustomed wildness, the Senate Finance Committee last week assaulted one of President Eisenhower's three legislative "imperatives": the five-year reciprocal trade bill that the House had passed by a lopsided majority of 317 to 98 (TIME, June 23). In a surrender to tariff-lobby pressures and isolationist propaganda, the committee...
...change in Minnesota. I've even seen farmer meetings where resolutions are passed supporting reciprocal trade." Chicago Democrat John C. Kluczynski switched over recess from an anti-aid stand. Said he: "I just changed by talking to the people. What the hell, we can't be isolationist. We've got to live with the world...