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Other contenders were gaining on the leaders. In a poll of G.O.P. Senators. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was out ahead of both Dewey and Taft. John Bricker was still holding his own as the darling of the Old Guard; Earl Warren was still the fair-haired boy in the West. A new favorite son was moving up: Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall...
...calls himself a "conservative liberal," which means, he says thoughtfully, that "I believe in the greatest good for the greatest number." One of his more conservative Republican colleagues cracked: "We actually have a hard time keeping him out of the lap of guys like Claude Pepper." And John Bricker was heard to remark last summer: "I hear the Socialists have gotten to Taft." These hyperboles indicate, at least, that if Taft wears the party harness, he goes his own gait...
Instantly Taft was on his feet to agree. The situation was "composed." Bilbo shuffled down the corridors. Behind him the Senate, suddenly in jovial humor, began swearing in the rest of its new members. Up to the desk Taft escorted his colleague, John Bricker, who blushed like a June bride...
...candidate for the Republican nomination in 1948 (TIME, Dec. 30) tempted no older hands to the same early statement of aims. But other obvious candidates were watching, and two of them were from the same state: Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and her former Governor John Bricker, who will take his seat in the Senate this week. In 1940 Bricker had stood aside and let the 50 votes of the Ohio delegation go to Taft. In 1944 Taft had returned the favor, and Bricker had won the vice-presidential nomination. Last week in Washington, Bob Taft...
...answer came from Columbus. John Bricker himself made no commitment. But the Columbus Dispatch reported what other friends of Ohio's junior Senator quickly confirmed: in 1948 Ohio's 50 votes would go to Robert A. Taft...