Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston University, the John Birch Society is helping to organize the B. U. teach-in. The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce is assisting the teach-in there. And the oil industry was so pleased with the idea that it offered the national teach-in office financial support for the teach...
...into their reporting. Simmons Fentress was at the White House to gauge the presidential reaction and future course. Neil MacNeil, chief congressional correspondent, was busy interviewing Kentucky's Marlow Cook and other crucial Senators. John Austin, who covers Congress with MacNeil, focused his reporting on Indiana's Birch Bayh, leader of the Carswell opposition. Dean Fischer, the bureau's legal expert, was in the Justice Department interviewing one of Attorney General John Mitchell's key aides. John Stacks was soon probing Senate attitudes toward the nomination of another Southerner to the Supreme Court. Throughout...
...criticism built up, the Carswell opponents, particularly Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke and Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, saw a slim chance to defeat him. Continuing to stall, they subjected the loyalists to a kind of drop-by-drop water torture, engineering one-by-one announcements of new anti-Carswell Senators. Then, last month, Brooke, Bayh and others hit upon a device that they thought would allow troubled Senators to sidetrack the nomination without taking the full heat of voting against it. They proposed sending the matter back to the Judiciary Committee for further study ?and there it would almost certainly...
Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who had led the opposition to Haynsworth but held back on Carswell in fear of leading a losing battle, was then spurred to action. Says a Bayh aide: "The boss was terribly moved by Brooke's speech...
What compromised Carswell's chances most, though, was a parliamentary gimmick thought up last week by his Senate opponents. Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, a Democrat who led the fight against Clement Haynsworth, introduced a motion to send the Carswell nomination back to the Judiciary Committee-ostensibly for further hearings. For practical purposes, however, sending a nominee's name back to committee is a shelving device that permits the nomination to die quietly...