Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth point, still in doubt, provides that an international agreement other than a treaty, e.g., an executive agreement, would become effective as internal law in the U.S. only by act of Congress. This was the sticker: Bricker okayed it, but the Department of Justice wanted more time to study its implications...
Some 250 Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment gathered in Washington, shook their heads sadly as Mrs. Robert Vogeler (wife of the freed prisoner of the Hungarian Reds) cried: "Men who serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly squeal with delight when he gave his reasons for changing the U.S. Constitution, beginning with: "This is the 74th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur." The speaker was Clarence Manion, ex-dean of the University of Notre Dame's law school, now chairman of President Eisenhower's Commission...
...vast and vital field of federal-state relationships would challenge a dozen "Pat" Manions-but has not been given the full-time attention of even one. Manion has been busy with other things; his proud boast is that he has spoken for the Bricker amendment in all the 48 states. Meanwhile, his commission has languished. Of 78 federal grant-in-aid programs that Manion himself believes should be studied, work has started on only three. With the commission's report due March i, an extension of time must be requested...
...Administration does not intend to fire Manion, despite his intemperate attacks on opponents of the Bricker amendment. But it is no secret that everyone from the President on down would like to see him resign or else get to work with his commission and quit gold-Brickering...
Congressmen who didn't know what to say about the Bricker amendment were decisive and articulate-and undivided-on the coffee issue. The Senate started an investigation. The House thought it had better start one, too. The President of the U.S. (who drinks 2½ cups a day, while Mrs. Eisenhower drinks five) announced that the Federal Trade Commission was trying to get to the bottom of the coffee price rise...