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Buffoon Manufacturer. In Wisconsin, ten candidates for Governor in all four parties-Democrat, Republican, Progressive and Socialist-campaigned against Republican Governor Julius P. ("The Just") Heil, hoping to capitalize on Heil's buffoonery and isolationist leanings. They lambasted him for failure to spend more than one-fourth of his time on his Governor's duties, for neglecting to call a special session of the legislature to vote funds for civilian defense. Governor Heil, who has made a big success as a manufacturer of everything from oil burners to snowplows (and is proud of it), ignored his critics, boasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Primaries' End | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...last fortnight gallantly confessed his ormer isolationist errors (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Doctor on Demons | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...TIME was responsible for its story on "Cowboy" Taylor, ex-isolationist and crooner who, as TIME predicted, won Idaho's Democratic Senatorial nomination. In the absence of further communication from him, TIME, having rechecked its assertions, sticks by what it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Crooner in Idaho. To run for the Senate against incumbent Republican John Thomas, onetime isolationist, Democrats picked Glenn Taylor, a cowboy crooner (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Primaries | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...renomination to the U.S. House of Representatives of Isolationist Hamilton Fish (see p. 15), whom the Nazis feted and paraded in 1939 as a friendly American bigshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Goebbels' Week | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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