Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...session of Congress took place last week, five hours after the President had delivered his State of the Union message, and after most Senators and Congressmen had pronounced their appraisals to newsmen and gone home to dinner. Just after dark, Ohio's white-haired Republican Senator John W. Bricker walked into the White House and made his way to Ike's second-floor study to meet with the President and an assortment of Administration brass, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Senate Majority Leader Bill Knowland. The problem: what to do about...
...Administration opposed the Bricker amendment at hearings last spring, but between sessions, John Bricker and his disciples carried their case through the nation. Bricker returned to Congress last week with not only the backing of his powerful old ally, the American Bar Association, but the endorsement of the American Medical Association and major veterans' groups. The plain fact confronting the conference in Ike's study: John Bricker had assembled enough Republican and Democratic votes to get his amendment through the Congress, and enough support in enough states to get the amendment into the Constitution...
Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School said yesterday that the proposed Bricker amendment to the Constitution is "unnecessary and would do far mere harm than good...
Dean Griswold testified against the Bricker proposal at a hearing held by the legislative committee of the Massachusetts' Legislature Wednesday. He told the group that the adoption of the amendment would mean foreign countries would have to make separate treaties with each of the 48 states...
...Pass the Bricker Amendment...