Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightists intend to figure in as many congressional campaigns as possible next year. California's Representative John Rousselot, a member of the John Birch Society, is talking of running for the Senate in the 1962 G.O.P. primary against Incumbent Thomas Kuchel. Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford has already begun to use far-right material in a buildup against Senator J. William Fulbright. Says Indiana's Clarence Manion onetime dean of Notre Dame Law School and a veteran anti-Communist lecturer and writer, who claims to have 350 Conservative Clubs in operation: "I've never seen anything like this...
...most formidable of the extremist groups is the John Birch Society (TIME, March 10. et seq.), founded three years ago by retired Massachusetts Candymaker (Welch's Fudge and Sugar Daddy) Robert Welch, 62. So suspicious that he often denounces shuffling or coughing in his audience as "a dirty Communist trick," Welch has a gift for such phrases as "Comsymp." which he uses as a label for many who disagree with him, and a talent for such slander as describing Dwight Eisenhower as "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." His causes are many: they range from a campaign against...
...resurgence of the ultras, several other organizations have begun to challenge the predominance of the John Birch Society. Among them...
...States' Rights ticket in 1960, believes that "socialist and Communist influence now pervades the thinking of our Federal Government and the two major political parties." He claims members in 45 states, distributes about half a million pamphlets a year, is an active, unit-founding member of the John Birch Society...
...happens, one fine former combat officer is the current hero of almost all the rightest groups. He is Major General Edwin A. Walker, 52, who resigned from the Army last month after being transferred from his command in West Germany under charges of indoctrinating his troops with John Birch pamphlets and attempting to influence his men to cast absentee ballots for conservative U.S. political candidates. Questioned by an Army inspector general, Walker declined to answer certain questions, pleading that he was protected by Article 31 of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice-which, like the Fifth Amendment...