Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Birch Society has been more successful than George Wallace (at least for the Society's approximately 75,000 members) at evoking the horrors of Big Government, or maybe it has just been more graphic. Instead of referring vaguely to pointy-headed pencil-pushers on the Potomac, the Birchers never miss the chance in their literature to say that endless waves of rules and regulations, paperwork, and forms to fill out are tentacles of central government reaching out to clasp Americans in warm, dark totalitarianism...
...goal," its literature says, is "Less government, more responsibility, and--with God's help--a better world." It even wants to abolish the graduated income tax--to cut down on this intrusion of government on the individual, among other reasons. But the elderly, red-haired receptionist in the John Birch Society's national headquarters in Belmont spends her working day filling out requisitions, resupply forms, and sales slips, because the John Birch Society is a business...
...brilliant" writers were, and her spiel varied somewhat with the official line. For instance, she said, "You know, of course, that Mr. Welch [Robert Welch, Founder of the Society] learned to read at age two" --the official biography says he was three. And she told me that John Birch, who was a fundamentalist missionary to China in the early 1940's and later became an intelligence agent for Gen. Clair Chennault in China, was "ruthlessly murdered by the Russian Communists in 1945." Welch's definitive Life of John Birch (1954) says that the "bloodthirsty killers" were Chinese Communists...
...expected to have much trouble defeating Bayh, whose name many people did not even know how to pronounce (it is buy). He soon set them straight with a radio and TV jingle: "Hey look him over/ He's your kind of guy./ His first name is Birch/ His last name is Bayh." With the strong support of the United Auto Workers, Bayh narrowly won by 11,000 votes. He still plays on the name; one of his campaign buttons says: I'm BAYH Partisan...
...Abourezk sought support for a breakup bill and succeeded in rounding up only two cosponsors. More attempts to dismember the oil giants will be made, and the frontal assault on them could turn into a major issue for the Democrats in next year's presidential campaign. Indiana Senator Birch Bayh last week became the ninth Democrat to announce his candidacy, and he made a proposal to break up the oil companies a prominent plank in his platform. He has already held hearings on his own bill to dismember the majors...