Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Senate put away the Bricker amendment and its less muscular cousin, the George amendment. Not since Little Eva has there been quite such a deathbed scene...
...likely to lose some strength, as he will in any battle, but this might be rather a good thing. For his great fear of losing popularity through alienating a wing of his party prevents him from putting through his program. He has bucked that wing on the Bricker Amendment issue and won, but has not yet felt strong action on the McCarthy issue is necessary. Yesterday's statement shows that the President understands the problem, but it also shows that he as yet fails to understand the urgent need for direct action...
Last week the U.S. Senate plunged into a debate on the Bricker amendment. Soon over their heads and caught in the crosscurrents of Supreme Court decisions such as Missouri v. Holland and U.S. v. Pink, the Senators tried to thrash their way to familiar ground. For many, this effort led toward the barnyard...
...seemed, high time to buckle down to serious work, and a vote was taken on a minor amendment to the Bricker resolution. The result, 62 for and 20 against, was significant only in disclosing a hard core of at least 20 Senators who would stand firm against any change along lines proposed by Bricker & Co., regardless of any compromises or other kernels of corn which might be dropped in front of them. Many of the 62 who voted yes this week said that they would vote no if the original amendment or anything like it came before the Senate...
...Give a weasel-word reply. 6. In the foreign relations field Ike had plenty of trouble in his own party over the Bricker Amendment, which had been designed to: 1. Extend the Monroe Doctrine to Asia...