Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where he graduated as top man in his law school class. In 1949 he became administrative assistant to Ohio's Senator John Bricker, later moved on to become assistant to Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers. Bricker, whose law firm represents the Pennsylvania Railroad, sponsored Minor for the $15,000-a-year ICC post, but according to Rogers, "Anybody who thinks he could be persuaded by special pleading just doesn't know...
...Last week Ohio Republican leaders endorsed Senator John W. Bricker as a favorite-son candidate in the state's presidential primary. Bricker, accepting, said he would switch the Ohio delegation to Eisenhower if the President decides to run. But if Ike does not stand for reelection, the favorite-son device would give Bricker a chance to swing his state's 56 convention votes to a candidate of his liking, such as Bill Knowland-or maybe even in a serious bid by John W. Bricker (who settled for the nomination for Vice President...
...editor of "National Review," a conservative weekly, Buckley said that "the liberal is very liable to believe, for instance, that Owen Lattimore was unjustly treated, that the Bricker Amendment is bad, that civil rights were nearly destroyed by the right wing, and is completely adjusted to a society where Walter Reuther and George Meany have more power than Rockefeller or Vanderbilt ever...
...Bricker has been replaced by Congressman Albert P. Morano, Republican from Connecticut, who will deliver the keynote address on a new topic, the recognition of Communist China...
Thomson said he wrote to Bricker to "warn him of this danger," and to suggest to the Senator that he instead appear before a meeting sponsored by the Young Republicans. Bricker turned him down...