Word: brickering
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...effort to scuttle the Eisenhower farm program. Such Republicans as Nevada's Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Senator William Langer vote against the Administration as a matter of course. The President was able to muster only 14 Republican Senators on the key vote against the Bricker amendment. ¶ Musing on the Republican dilemma, a veteran Republican Senator, who is against renewal of reciprocal trade treaties, said last week: "Eisenhower is telling all of us to suddenly reverse our field and vote directly opposite to the way we've been voting for years-and getting...
...General Robert E. Wood, retired board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and onetime head of America First; Clarence E. Manion, ex-dean of Notre Dame's law school, whose resignation as chairman of the President's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations was forced after he began ballyhooing the Bricker Amendment (TIME, Feb. 8). Among other For Americans: Montana's onetime (1923-47) Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Author John T. (The Road Ahead) Flynn, New York's longtime (1919-45) Republican Representative Hamilton Fish...
...Republican Senator Homer Ferguson and Detroit's Republican Congressman Charles G. Oakman, whose constituents will be hit by the price increase, introduced bills to outlaw the new field-rate system and keep the old base rate. To help them, Senate Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee Chairman John W. Bricker, whose Ohio constituents are also affected, demanded an FPC opinion on the Ferguson bill. FPC replied that it would give no view on legislation dealing with an issue before the commission...
...bill, which goes to the White House for the President's signature, was fought by Ohio's Democratic Senator Thomas A. Burke but was strongly supported by Ohio's Republican Senator John W. Bricker, whose law firm gets $500 a month as counsel in state tax matters for the East Ohio company. But it also drew support from other quarters; four members of the five-man FPC favored it, as did many state commissions...
...thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens, about 6.000 people paid...