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Stare Decisis. The most heated debate of the A.B.A. convention revolved around the Bricker Amendment (TIME, July 13), which would put a congressional check on the President's.power to conduct foreign relations by executive agreement. Twice before the house of delegates had endorsed the Bricker Amendment. Last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Boston to stick his head in the lion's mouth. In packed John Hancock Hall, Dulles told the A.B.A. assembly that the Bricker Amendment "would set the clock back to ... the Articles of Confederation." * Yalta and Potsdam, Dulles conceded, were executive agreements...
...lain in state, visited by thousands of people.* There the dignitaries gathered: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, Taft's old friend, Douglas MacArthur. The muffled brass of the U.S. Marine Band echoed through the corridors, and Senator John Bricker spoke the eulogy. Taft, who had always gone armed with a sense of humor, would have appreciated the irony of such pomp and honor; in life, he had been more often damned than praised...
...long after the names began to roll, a complication arose in Ohio. From Washington U.S. Senator John Bricker telephoned a G.O.P. leader and proposed that the Republican-controlled legislature, about to adjourn, stay in Columbus long enough to change the state law on filling U.S. Senate vacancies. The legislature could call for a special election in November. With that to mull over, the legislators agreed to stay around until late this week...
Hurray for those two pages regarding the proposed "Bricker Amendment...
...American people want the Bricker Amendment passed, and the sooner the better...