Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually to encourage and urge it. The fact that we see eye to eye on the mysteries of the incarnation, the redemption and the divine trinity does not make it any easier-or, for that matter, even necessary-that we all nod our heads together when someone mentions the Bricker amendment, fluoridation of water, or the merger of the C.I.O. and A.F.L...
Last week the U.S. Congress looked away from the farm belt just long enough to: ¶ Add, by a 43-to-40 vote in the Senate, a John W. Bricker amendment to an otherwise routine bill increasing to $3,000,000 the annual U.S. contributions to the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Ohio Republican Bricker insisted that the extra money be withheld until Iron Curtain representatives are expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted...
...Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), John Sparkman (D-Ala.), John O. Pastore (D,R.I.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky), Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.), William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio...
...John Bricker and his supporters prepared their arguments for presentation to the Senate. Hennings and other Bricker opponents readied themselves for concentrated study of the new proposal. One of the basic constitutional debates of this century was ready for its 1956 round...
...their first studies of the new proposal, opponents of previous Bricker amendments thought they saw a danger in the three words, "any provision of." The test of a treaty's validity, they argued, should be in the Constitution as an organic whole instead of in its separate sections. Said Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings: "Under the Dirksen substitute, a provision of the Constitution could be torn from its context and used as the sole test of a treaty's validity. Furthermore, the proposed amendment would seem to apply to all existing as well as future...