Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This move is more insidious than Mr. Lewis' pre-Pearl Harbor decision to become an anti-New Deal isolationist. It is more harmful than his too-recent attempt to throw a strike wrench into WLB's Little Steel decision. This is the last desperate attempt of an embittered man to regain his former power, even at the cost of shattering Labor's delicately constructed moves toward cooperation, inside and outside of the ranks...
...Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...
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...
...last fortnight gallantly confessed his ormer isolationist errors (TIME, Sept...
...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...