Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.O.P. is to win a congressional majority it must turn the trick in the middle west. Again, signs seem to indicate that the mid-western Republicans might just do it. They stand to gain a Senatorial seat in the election of Honest John Bricker in Ohio, another in the defeat of former Democratic Governor Townsend in Indians, and can add to the margin by decisions in close West Virginia, Wisconsin and Missouri races. Coupled with at least fair G.O.P. chances in California, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wyoming, this edge in the corn country might be the force which would...
...That's Truman," said the Sage, "and we'll try not to Lausche things up. Don't give me no Guffey if I'm wrong, because Tafter this I may Landon the political doghouse. Reece for my crystal ball, and be careful or you'll Bricker...
...Democrats shuddered over a poll in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). It indicated that Governor Lausche, a native Clevelander, would win it by no more than 64,000. In 1944 he had taken it by a record 192,000 to ride out the Republican swell that carried the state for Dewey & Bricker. If Lauschecould be beaten, the Democrats were in bad shape indeed...
...point to remember was that a political turnover would lift into a new area of activity such Republicans as Arthur Vandenberg, Robert Taft, John Bricker, Thomas Dewey, Earl Warren, Harold Stassen-and Ed Martin. To extreme New Dealers perhaps all of these men except Earl Warren and Harold Stassen were anathema. But not to the country at large. Senator Vandenberg had joined freely and courageously with Secretary of State Byrnes to form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate...
...second poll confirmed the G.O.P. tide in New York: 52% for Tom Dewey, 34% for Jim Mead, 14% undecided. The third indicated a landslide for John Bricker in Ohio (56% to 28%). Politicians talked knowingly about a private poll which showed Harry Truman's popularity down...