Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Superficially, the character of the two papers was as different as dailies can be. The right-wing, isolationist Tribune viewed the New Dealing Post-Dispatch as a political enemy. But actually, the journalistic ingredients they had in common were more important than those that set them apart. Both the Tribune and the P-D-each in its own way-chose to be independent to a fault. The Trib rarely went along with any political party (see below), while the P-D's editorial support swung from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) to Alf Landon (1936), back to Roosevelt...
...sorry hotel accommodations at the 1948 convention lingered on, and Chicago could make no definite commitment to the G.O.P. as to the desired August date. Moreover, Republican leaders had little enthusiasm for the idea of renominating Ike in the hostile heartland of the Chicago Tribune's isolationist brand of Republicanism...
...shouted his way through all 88 counties. Burke lost by 9,355 votes. Remembered as cheer leader in the 1948 and 1952 Taft-for-President campaigns, George Bender is boss of the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican machine and a veteran of 14 years in the House. Long an isolationist, he has hungrily swallowed President Eisenhower's policies, foreign and domestic...
...conservative IL MESSAGGERO. Rome's largest newspaper: With the chauvinistic and isolationist influences of the Republican Old Guard eliminated or weakened, Eisenhower will be able to give greater impetus to his policy of collaboration with America's European allies. The famous Randall plan for greater liberalization of trade which failed to pass the previous Congress will probably find a more favorable reception in the next Congress...
...other hotly contested elections, incumbent Democrat Paul Douglas won a qualified concession from his isolationist opponent in Illinois, Joseph Meek...