Word: brickering
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...Circuit Riders, who accuse the National Council of 1) being a kind of superchurch run by a clerical coterie of fuzzy-minded pinkos and Red infiltrators, 2) speaking for its members without consulting them, and 3) making pronouncements in favor of admitting Red China to the U.N., opposing the Bricker Amendment, and abolishing the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...graduate of Ohio State ('22), Power went on for degrees in law and economics. He taught economics at the university, and at the same time practiced with the law firm of ex-Senator John Bricker, ran three of his campaigns. Power so impressed a small, ailing holding company called Associated Telephone Utilities, when he won a rate case for a subsidiary, that A.T.U., later reorganized as General Telephone, invited him to take over all its Ohio rate cases. By 1946 he was handling all General's U.S. rate cases. When President Harold V. Bozell retired in 1951, Power...
...Warned conservative Senator John W. Bricker when Ohio Republicans decided to put right-to-work up for a vote in the November election: "If you put this on the ballot, you will lose the governorship, control of the state senate and house, and I might lose." He was right all around...
...talking about a real chance to take over. By last August the insurgent planning revolved around Vermont's George Aiken, New Jersey's Clifford Case and New York's Jacob Javits. After such Old Guard Republicans as Nevada's George Malone, Ohio's John Bricker-and Bill Knowland himself-got soundly whipped in the November elections, Aiken & Co. felt sure that they were on the right track. At first they had demanded only that one of their number be named assistant minority leader; by last week they were insisting that they get both the minority...
Pulling the Rug. The Senate's G.O.P. liberals have raised revolts before-and walked away from them before-but this time George Aiken seemed to mean business. Reason: in 1958 such G.O.P. right-wing Senators as Nevada's George "Molly" Malone, Ohio's John Bricker, California's Bill Knowland (running for Governor) and West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb, were roundly defeated while G.O.P. liberals just about held even and were sparked in spirit by G.O.P. liberal Nelson Rockefeller's election to the New York governorship. The incoming 34-man G.O.P. minority includes twelve...