Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amendment providing for the election of two Vice Presidents to "strengthen the line of succession." New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits and Virginia's Democratic Representative J. Vaughan Gary proposed that the Congress be empowered to elect a new Vice President. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh suggested that the President himself nominate a new Vice President, his choice subject to approval by Congress. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "Whatever John McCormack's qualifications as Speaker of the House, it's hard to imagine that even he could consider himself...
...Owned previously by the brother of John Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, who was himself advertising director of the candy company until...
...what neither Republicans nor Democrats had reckoned on was the energetic ire of an ultraconservative, Birch-barking farmer from tiny Gilby (pop. 300), Republican John W. Scott. For Scott's money Andrews was entirely too liberal, and two weeks before the election Scott suddenly jumped into the race as an independent "to test conservative strength...
...ordeal undeniably produced a leader of courage and principle who believes, in Home's own words, that the government should never be content just to do "what people will stand for," but instead should unflinchingly "tell them what they ought to stand for." Says Tory Backbencher Nigel Birch: "His clarity and integrity shine out, and that's what you require in a leader. With his dignity and restraint, Home will show up Harold Wilson for a cheap crackerjack...
Other officers elected at the meeting were: Wolcott B. Dunham '65, vice-president; James D. Birch '64, treasurer; Thomas P. Storer '65 and Ronald M. Wysgn '64, members of the administrative board. WHRB also voted to continue Dunham as station manager and re-elected Patricia A. Sloan...