Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election and ex-Governor Dwight Griswold is certain to win the late Kenneth Wherry's unexpired term. Vermont's Ralph Flanders, North Dakota's William Langer and Minnesota's Edward Thye are in no danger. Senators Irving Ives of New York and John Bricker of Ohio are far ahead...
Distinguished-looking John Bricker, however, is popular in his own right. Governor of Ohio for six years and Senator for six, he was also the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944. An impressive orator of the old school, he nominated Taft for the Presidency in three straight Republican conventions. But while his hero took first place in Washington newsmen's ratings of Senatorial ability, Bricker won the booby prize...
...actual count, Bricker has voted "no" more times than any other member of the last three Senates. Following the straight isolationist line, he has opposed Marshall Plan aid and branded Truman's decision to send troops to Korea "unconstitutional." His original contribution to isolationism has been a proposed amendment to the Constitution negating the enforcement provisions of the UN Covenant on Human Rights. Also a stand-patter domestically, Bricker was one of the few Senators to vote against 14 of the 16 provisions of the Hoover Commission...
...Bricker's opponent is ex-Price Stabilization chief Michael V. DiSalle. One of the most colorful political figures in the country, the five-foot-five, 215 lb. Toledo butterball is noted for his shrewd political sense and good humor. A son of an Italian immigrant, DiSalle makes no bones about his ancestry. He is introduced as "Toledo's best amateur spaghetti cook." When a heckler asked him if he were a member of the Mafia, he replied...
...support, DiSalle is aiming his campaign at independents and liberal Republicans. Through the medium of 17-hour television "talkathons," he points out he is nearer to both Eisenhower and Stevenson's foreign policy views than his opponent, and asks for "Ike and Mike" ballot splitting. Domestically, DiSalle drums on Bricker's voting record against rent control, which recent rent hikes in the state have made a sensitive issue...