Word: bricker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker amendment and in tapering off on foreign aid. Old Alex Wiley left the convention in tears (TIME, June 4), but he stubbornly decided to run anyway...
...Early in the conference, U.S. Delegate Walter Kotschnig announced that the U.S. would not participate in the debate and voting, nor would it sign the new antislavery convention no matter what it said. The State Department's avowed reason for its position was that because of Senator John Bricker's repeated assaults on the President's treaty-making power, "our present Administration feels it cannot sign treaties affecting internal problems." The likelier reason, which no one would admit to, is that the U.S. did not wish to offend King Saud, and thereby endanger the Dhahran airbase negotiations...
...Approved after five minutes' discussion and sent to the House a watered-down version of the Bricker Amendment contained in a bill (sponsored by Minority Leader Bill Knowland) requiring the Secretary of State to show the Senate, besides all regular treaties requiring formal ratification, the full texts of all hitherto secret executive agreements entered into by the President with the heads of other governments. Said Ohio's John W. Bricker: "A step in the right direction...
...White House, Ike felt sure he could quickly smooth out presidential relationships with Congress. It was not that easy: in 1953 came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John Bricker's proposed amendment (to limit the President's treatymaking power) was at its raucous height. Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young facetiously suggested that perhaps a few A-bombs "could be used now to good effect." Says Donovan: "The President took him to task for this. He said sharply that...
...Republican colleagues let loose, he had good reason to guess that he was licked. The state G.O.P. convention, meeting in Milwaukee last week to choose its candidate for the U.S. Senate primary in September, cheered attacks on "Uncle Sap's" foreign-aid program, then passed resolutions praising the Bricker amendment and the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As everybody knew, Alex Wiley had been consistently faithful to the Administration's foreign policy as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had voted against the Bricker amendment, and had even been conveniently absent from the Senate when his fellow...