Word: bricker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly out of date and still behave as though the neutral nations were major considerations in the cold war." Galbraith characterizes U.S. foreign policy in general as overly cautious and boring. "It seems that our policy is in the hands of men whose mothers were frightened by John W. Bricker," he says. No one knows for sure just what that sentence means, but it sounds great on the playing fields of academe...
Taft is trying to unseat Democratic Senator Stephen Young, 75, who startled Ohio back in 1958 when he managed to upset Republican Senator John Bricker. Most political observers figured in the past that Taft was a cinch to clobber Young. But as of last week, the Taft-Young race was surprisingly tight. Taft's big worry is not Steve Young but Barry Goldwater. who could lose Ohio by such a whopping margin that he might drag Taft down to defeat...
GEORGE BALANCHINE HARRY A. BATTEN HARRY BELAFONTE EZRA TAFT BENSON EDGAR BERGEN MILTON BERLE EUGENE R. BLACK EUGENE CARSON BLAKE ROGER BLOUGH RICHARD BOONE SPRUILLE BRADEN OMAR N. BRADLEY JOHN W. BRICKER CHARLES H. BROWER HERBERT BROWNELL JR. DAVE BRUBECK DON BUDGE MARY I. BUNTING ARLEIGH A. BURKE LEO BURNETT AUGUST A. BUSCH JR. JAMES F. BYRNES
Much as Dulles and Nixon and Charlie Wilson bored and irritated Eisenhower, Hughes says he was provoked to real anger and disgust only by the clowns and rogues who populated Congress: Knowland, Bricker, Dirksen, Milliken, McCarthy. On the subject of Mr. Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at a Cabinet meeting in early April, 1953, "the President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about...
After a speckled political career that included four terms in the House. Young was all but ignored by the party when he ran against supposedly unbeatable John Bricker in 1958-and beat him by 155,000 votes. Announcing that he would break tradition by not walking down the aisle for oath taking with his state's senior Senator, Young explained: ''If Senator Lausche supported me for election, it was a well-guarded secret...