Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there. Attached to its endorsement of Harry Truman's foreign policy was a stinging vote of no-confidence in Harry Truman's conduct of that policy. A peculiar coalition applied the stinger. It included resurgent isolationists like Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry and Ohio's John Bricker, who wanted to send no U.S. troops to Europe; men like Ohio's Robert Taft, who were resigned to sending the four divisions, but wanted to draw the line there; and other Senators, Republicans and Southern Democrats, who disputed the truculent challenge Harry Truman had flung at Congress last...
...nation was apt to get. Most talked of possibilities: Chief Justice Fred Vinson, ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Lovett, John Foster Dulles, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. In Republican eyes most of these possibilities would be preferable to Acheson, though Harriman, snorted Ohio's John Bricker, was just "a dumb Acheson...
Dirksen is more of an isolationist than Ohio's Bricker, and is backed by the same group of Republicans that sent C. Wayland Brooks to the Senate in 1942. He will oppose the President on all issues of foreign and domestic policy. Since the Republicans are within two of controlling the upper house of Congress, our foreign programs particularly aid to Europe can now be effectively opposed. The South's twelve-man contribution to the Democratic side of the Senate will join the GOP to try and defeat everything from the Marshall Plan to Point Four. Republicans can, of course...
Just to make sure that no Democrat walked off with the national capital while Congress was in recess, the Republicans had left a man behind to guard the place. Last week it was Senator John Bricker's turn to man the fort. With not much else to do, Acting Captain of the Guard Bricker gave reporters some of his ideas. One of them was that Bricker thought Congress might have to extend rent controls. Coming from Bricker, that was news. It was he who led the stubborn fight last summer against rent controls, but last week...
...conferees rejected the all-out amendment by the Republicans' Wherry and John Bricker which would direct the President, if he applied any price controls, to apply them all-and along with them, freeze all wages. Instead they gave the President power to impose selective price controls as deemed needed, but with a stern proviso: He must also freeze wages in the industries involved. Thus if steel prices were frozen, steelworkers would have their wages frozen, even though the price of their clothing and food might still be going up. Such so-called selective controls promised more confusion than stability...