Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the signers: liberal Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and conservative Republican Senator John Bricker, A.F.L. President George Meany and former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving Olds, ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet Conrad Aiken. Also among the signers: General George C. Marshall, who, between tours as Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, spent a year in China half-persuading the Nationalists to lie down like lambs with the conquest-bent Communists...
...Washington for his second tour, Cooper opposed the Bricker amendment, the tidelands bill and the Benson farm program. His main legislative achievement belongs to Cooper the practical politician rather than to Cooper the high-minded statesman. He got through an amendment fixing tobacco supports rigidly at 90% of parity, a triumph that endeared him to many of his tobacco-grower constituents...
Last summer the Senate approved two proposed constitutional amendments. One was to guarantee equal rights for women. The other would explicitly forbid the President to seize property, except under an act of Congress. This year the Bricker amendment to curb treaty-making powers bemuddled the Senate for weeks until the plan was finally killed by a one-vote margin...
...effort to scuttle the Eisenhower farm program. Such Republicans as Nevada's Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Senator William Langer vote against the Administration as a matter of course. The President was able to muster only 14 Republican Senators on the key vote against the Bricker amendment. ¶ Musing on the Republican dilemma, a veteran Republican Senator, who is against renewal of reciprocal trade treaties, said last week: "Eisenhower is telling all of us to suddenly reverse our field and vote directly opposite to the way we've been voting for years-and getting...
...General Robert E. Wood, retired board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and onetime head of America First; Clarence E. Manion, ex-dean of Notre Dame's law school, whose resignation as chairman of the President's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations was forced after he began ballyhooing the Bricker Amendment (TIME, Feb. 8). Among other For Americans: Montana's onetime (1923-47) Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Author John T. (The Road Ahead) Flynn, New York's longtime (1919-45) Republican Representative Hamilton Fish...