Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 59, onetime (1940-49) isolationist Republican Senator from Illinois, who moderated his isolationism after Eisenhower's 1952 victory; of a heart ailment; in Chicago...
...Herter went to Washington as his personal assistant, then moved to Boston as co-owner and co-editor of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent. A Republican, Herter saw to it that the Independent championed the League of Nations and word-whipped Massachusetts' Isolationist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
Horns & Tail. Next January, when the U.S. Senate convenes for the first session of the 85th Congress, the same Southern comet will rise over the national horizon as strapping (6 ft., 196 lbs.) Herman Eugene Talmadge, 43, segregationist and isolationist, takes the seat of one of the U.S.'s great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave...
...Senate Herman will find opportunity to voice his outrage against the present Justices of the Supreme Court ("A little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County"). Isolationist as well as segregationist, he will take a stand against what he regards as pressing evils today in the U.S., e.g., foreign aid, overseas alliances, low tariffs, the breadth of the President's treaty-making powers. His views, his youthful vigor and his name will make Herman a new rallying point for the Democratic Party's Southern wing. Says Georgia Political...
...Boston), active campaigner against votes for women and Prohibition (during which he kept one of the best cellars in Washington) who battled cheerfully and energetically against Roosevelt, child-labor reform, the British, labor unions, segregation, the Russians, the Methodists and Willkie Republicans; at Cramerton, N.C. A Mayflower descendant and isolationist Republican, George Tinkham's popularity in his normally Democratic district was so great that he never bothered to campaign, went big-game hunting instead, named his more repulsive trophies for F.D.R., Cordell Hull, other antagonists...