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Buncombe Bob. With the primary only a fortnight away, Frank Graham still seemed to be the man to beat. He had little to worry about from one opponent, demagogic Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 65, who was hitting the comeback trail with his same old isolationist line: "I say stop immigration now and lock the gates securely, because I know we have not a friend on earth." But Reynolds seemed to have lost his punch...
Nothing is actually being done to establish a real economic union of Western European nations . . . The present British Labor Government has not the slightest desire to join in any European economic federation. Socialism in England is nationalistic. In an economic sense it is isolationist...
...political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial junket last year (with a senatorial subcommittee of which he was not even a member) that a Washington correspondent began his story: "Senator Jenner returned to Washington today and gave the whole world 24 hours...
...almost barred from his Senate seat in 1941 on grounds of "moral turpitude" growing out of some old charges of corruption while he was governor of North Dakota. He has since made several Senators regret their votes to seat him. A lone wolf, incapable of cooperation, 63-year-old Isolationist Langer has probably introduced more trivial bills than any other Senator, once proposed that the U.S. withhold the $3,750,000,000 loan from Britain and use the money to provide urinalysis for U.S. citizens...
George W. Malone, isolationist Republican from Nevada, a onetime prizefighter who fights a loud, long fight for narrow sectional interests. His Senate office is a rat's nest of statistics on the West's mineral resources and little else; his chair on the Senate floor is often vacant. Fifty-nine-year-old "Molly" Malone once represented the Western mining and industrial interests in the Capitol lobby; as a Senator, he still does...