Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politics, Gannett backed Franklin Roosevelt in his early years, but by 1940 was billing himself as The Man Who Stopped the New Dealers. While he was denounced by F.D.R. as an "isolationist"-and by the late Andrei Vishinsky as a "warmonger"-Gannett in his political philosophy was always animated by the same abhorrence of waste that made him a successful publisher. Though he suffered from diabetes for 33 years, Frank Gannett did not slow perceptibly until 1948, when he had a stroke. Bouncing back, he ran his empire until 1955, when he fractured his spine in a fall. Management...
...Eisenhower administration must bear much of the blame for this embarrassing situation. For, while most of the Senate opposition stems from isolationist elements, there are several problems which the President could have anticipated sooner. By clarifying the issue of control of nuclear secrets and material contributed to the agency, Eisenhower perhaps could have exposed isolationist arguments for what they are and maintained the support of others who simply want assurance that American fissionable material will not go into an enemy's stock-pile...
False Notion. Though North Carolina-born Dr. Ivey has kept his board out of the integration controversy, he has sold educators and politicians alike on the idea that "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." The board's biggest job ahead: a survey of the South to see what will be needed to meet the coming onrush of students...
...Normalcy is far different from what Warren Gamaliel Harding was talking about in 1920 when, unwittingly adding a word to the language, he called for "not nostrums but normalcy." That was a static, isolationist normalcy; 1957's is a capacity for tolerating crisis and change. With hardly a murmur, key U.S. cities have accepted the sleek Nike antiaircraft missile batteries as next-door neighbors. Scores of cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard...
...David Lawrence, a conservative Democrat. "It probably was the first message at an inaugural ceremony directed in its entirety to all the peoples of the world as well as to the people of the U.S." Wrote Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson: "From start to finish the President decisively repudiated the isolationist-nationalist sentiments with which his party was so long identified. The new Democratic Congress will have no choice but to uphold...