Word: birchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, (3) abolish the income tax. The Liberty Amendment has been approved by the legislatures of Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, and South Carolina, whose state senate passed it without a dissenting vote. Here in Massachusetts, the principal lobbyist for the measure is Col. Laurence E. Bunker, a John Bircher who organized January's "Rally for God and country" in Boston...
...federalist panelist, Carter Higgins, president of the Worcester Pressed Steel Co. and the New England World Federalists, came to the meeting, as he said expecting to confront a John Bircher. He spent much of the discussion attacking Birchite anti-disarmament and anti-United Nations slogans. He said, "You can get together with the Russians if you have...
...nearly 17,000 votes to Los Angeles Councilman Edward Royhal, a liberal who plugged medicare. In a swirl of libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald Brooks Cameron...
...personally "abstained from joining the society because it might not be far enough to the right." Equally abstemious, for different reasons, was another vintage journalist, California Rancher Thomas M. Storke, 84, who for 61 years has been editor-publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. To counter Big Bircher Robert Welch's $2,300 college essay contest on reasons why Warren should be impeached, Storke offered $1,500 for dissertations on "The Problem of Character Assassination," but limited his entry list to law students and one other group. Snorted longtime Welch Baiter Storke: "I've also called...