Word: bricker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's elections it was such moderate Republicans as New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott and Oregon's Mark Hatfield who scored most dramatically; it was such Old Guard Republicans as Ohio's John Bricker, Nevada's George Malone, Indiana's Harold Handley, California's Bill Knowland and West Virginia's Chapman Rever-omb who took the most sensational drubbings. Clearly the congressional Republican Party had a more middle-road look after the elections than before...
Democrat Michael Di Salle defeated C. William O'Neill in the contest for governor. In an exceptionally close race for the Senate, Republican Senator John Bricker lost to Steven Young...
Working as a team, Ohio's Republican Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 46, and Senator John Bricker, 65, crisscrossed the Buckeye State last week in an aggressive new bid for votes. Boomed...
...Neill: "Fear has spread over Ohio. There is use of power to instill fear. I deplore the thought that Ohio citizens should be afraid." Roared Bricker: "If ever there was a clearcut call for non-partisan action, it was for protection of the union rank and file against the abuses of labor racketeers, the embezzlers, the professional goons, the Hoffas and the Becks." So saying, O'Neill and Bricker plumped unequivocally for a hotly debated Ohio right-to-work bill on next month's ballot. Explained a G.O.P. strategist: "We're taking a chance on it helping...
Watch the Backlash. Even so, no Democrats-and precious few Republicans-have grabbed hold of the issue with the firmness of Ohio's O'Neill and Bricker. Notable exception: the nation's most stubborn right-to-work man, William Fife Knowland, California's Republican candidate for governor, who had set a horrible example by splitting his already-squabbling party asunder over the issue...