Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Americans, led by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker, fear that the U.S. Constitution's treaty-making provision can be abused to violate the liberties of citizens. Bricker has proposed several amendments (TIME, July 13, 1953 et seq.) aimed at closing what he deems to be a dangerous constitutional loophole; in 1954, one version of the Bricker Amendment failed of Senate adoption by a single vote. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting n to 2, approved and sent to the Senate for action this year a new proposed treaty amendment to the Constitution. Its sponsor...
...fight has just begun," John W. Bricker said when his proposed constitutional amendment met Senate defeat...
...party in two specific ways. First, he hopes to regain some of the lost party discipline on Capitol Hill and throughout the nation. His best weapon in this effort is the popularity of the President, who now numbers among his supporters some leaders, e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker, of the party's right wing...
...only concrete evidence against Thomson, and hence, for Brady's petition, was a letter from Thomson to Senator Bricker and a verified statement by the HYRC president in the CRIMSON, both disparaging the Political Forum...
Last night Brady said he was specifically basing this petition on an attempt by the Conservative League to dissuade Rep. Harold H. Velde from addressing his group in November, and Thomson's admitted urging of Senator John Bricker not to address the Forum, as well as his alleged influence in helping cause Senator Styles Bridges to cancel his Forum talk...