Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stare Decisis. The most heated debate of the A.B.A. convention revolved around the Bricker Amendment (TIME, July 13), which would put a congressional check on the President's.power to conduct foreign relations by executive agreement. Twice before the house of delegates had endorsed the Bricker Amendment. Last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Boston to stick his head in the lion's mouth. In packed John Hancock Hall, Dulles told the A.B.A. assembly that the Bricker Amendment "would set the clock back to ... the Articles of Confederation." * Yalta and Potsdam, Dulles conceded, were executive agreements...
Next day the lion's jaws closed. Frank E. Holman, 67, Seattle corporation lawyer and A.B.A. past president who gave Ohio's Senator John Bricker the idea for the amendment, stopped chain-smoking cigars long enough to take the floor in the three-hour debate in the house of delegates. Holman wasted little time on the specific points of the Dulles argument. His appeal was to a deep-seated legal concept: the force of precedent, stare decisis. If the house of delegates "turned turtle" now after twice backing the Bricker Amendment, warned Holman, the A.B.A. would lose...
...Shame!" That afternoon, the anti-Bricker forces rallied for one last fight in the assembly. Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 33, Harvard's last All-America (guard, class of '42), World War II submarine officer and Boston lawyer, introduced a resolution calling for a referendum of all 50,000 A.B.A. members-in effect, a demand to see whether the membership would reverse the house of delegates. Striding down to a front-row mike, ex-President Holman angrily retorted: "You gentlemen just want to get your, names in the press." (Cried voices from the assembly floor: "Shame!") But a few minutes...
That night, at the annual banquet, the A.B.A. presented its gold medal for jurisprudence to ex-President Holman-for his Bricker Amendment leadership. Then outgoing President Robert G. Storey, 59, of Dallas handed over his gavel to incoming President William J. Jameson, 55, a Billings, Mont, lawyer, and the diamond jubilee of the A.B.A. was over...
...long after the names began to roll, a complication arose in Ohio. From Washington U.S. Senator John Bricker telephoned a G.O.P. leader and proposed that the Republican-controlled legislature, about to adjourn, stay in Columbus long enough to change the state law on filling U.S. Senate vacancies. The legislature could call for a special election in November. With that to mull over, the legislators agreed to stay around until late this week...