Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Henrik Shipstead, 79, son of a Norwegian immigrant to Minnesota, who in 1922 became the first U.S. Senator elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket, served four terms-the last as a Republican-before his intransigent isolationist career was ended in the 1946 primary by Harold Stassen's hand-picked candidate, Republican Edward J. Thye; of congestive heart failure complicated by terminal pneumonia; in Alexandria, Minn...
...book. The Conscience of a Conservative (Victor; $3), Goldwater sets down what he thinks 1960's U.S. conservatives should stand for. He thoroughly belies the U.S. liberals' caricature-belief that an Old Guardist is a deep-dyed isolationist endowed with nothing but penny-pinching inhumanity and slavish devotion to Big Business. He calls for a U.S. drive to win the cold war, including liberation of the Communist satellites, outlines a creed of social and economic philosophy that both Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson could ratify. Planks in Goldwater's platform...
Died. William John Bulow, 91, onetime (1927-31) Governor of South Dakota and isolationist Senator (1931-43), famed for his aim in spitting tobacco ("He enters the campaign with great expectorations," said an observer), who before World War II advised Congress, "Better raise more spinach instead of building battleships"; in Washington...