Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Senate Republican conference, to fill the two Republican vacancies on the all-important Foreign Relations Committee, appointed New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, pinstriped, pompous politico, retired after twelve years as an isolationist Senator from North Carolina, announced the formation of a new Nationalist Party. Said he: "The Republican Party is dead and cannot be rejuvenated. . . . Neither of the two major political parties is big enough to hold . . . interventionists and noninterventionists, nationalists and internationalists, Communists and anti-Communists...
Rhymed Suspicion. This bland explanation disturbed citizens who had expected some day to see the Charter, properly signed & sealed, in a glass case like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The whole affair seemed very suspicious to such incurably suspicious journals as the Chicago Tribune. The isolationist Tribune published a frontpage color cartoon of F.D.R. fishing, with this jingle...
...loud-checked shirt and playboy bow tie. North Carolina's junior Senator, now the son-in-law of Washington's wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, had decided last spring not to seek a fourth term. Said Buncombe Bob: "I have often referred to myself as an isolationist. . . . I merely employed the term because those who attempted to smear us for trying to keep this country out of the war used that word. . . . We are winning this war. . . . Russia could not have won it. Great Britain could not have...
...TIME'S phrase (which conformed to impartial Capitol opinion) was prompted 1) by Senator Gillette's voting record (straight down the isolationist line against Lend-Lease, revision of the Neutrality Act, etc.), and 2) by the need to distinguish him from such impassioned new-line Democrats as Claude Pepper and Joe Guffey. Never to be confused with such clamorous isolationists as Ham Fish, Iowa's well-liked, forthright Senator Gillette,"apparently not too old-line to change, was appointed to the Senate Committee which last year wrote the Connally Resolution on postwar world cooperation...