Word: bricker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Same night in Manhattan, Ohio's Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were chiefly to blame, said Republican Bricker. Lest anybody think he was still dark-horsing around for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination, he added: "In 1940, I'll be a candidate for Governor of Ohio-absolutely...
...mother accused of starving her children so she could buy herself new dresses, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio last week called the whole thing a lie, invited the gossips to mind their own business...
Snapped Governor Bricker, who has dark-horse aspirations for the Republican Presidential nomination: "The Federal authorities . . . seem more interested in the politics of the affair than in helping the needy. . . . The lurid catch phrases which are being used by political opponents are no more applicable in Ohio than in any other State...
...temporary expedient could solve Ohio's problem. Only solution in sight is through the passage of enabling legislation by the rural-dominated General Assembly, which would allow Ohio's cities, now legally hog-tied, to raise sufficient taxes for relief. But the chance of Governor Bricker calling a special session this year, thus opening the floodgates to old-age pension bills, and possibly having the State treasury's handsome 1939 surplus swept away, was remote. This was what still kept the gossips gossiping...
Ohio's Treasury has a tidy little surplus. A special session might vote to spend the surplus, and more too, in relief bills. "If [Bricker] sits tight now," observed Columnist Raymond Clapper, "he can clean up this year with a surplus of perhaps $5,000,000 and offer himself as an economical administrator who would make short work of extravagance at Washington...