Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Dakota voters witnessed something new this week. As John Bricker's campaign special chuffed through the state, two Senatorial candidates clambered aboard. One was slick, slippery Gerald Prentice Nye, 51, the old-line, Old Guard isolationist who has warmed one of North Dakota's Senate seats for 19 long years. The other was bespectacled Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, 54, whom Gerald Nye tossed out by 972 votes in a hot, three-cornered GOPrimary last June (TIME, July 10). Stambaugh, an able Fargo lawyer, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion, a man who believes deeply...
Socialist Norman Thomas, announcing that this would be his final campaign, went on making by far the best denunciations of both the New Deal and the G.O.P. John Bricker and Harry Truman carried on their second-string campaigns, giving many local arrangements committees a chance to serve hot chicken patties...
Governor Dewey has launched a campaign of propaganda which may turn out to be very harmful to the fighting spirit of the American people and discouraging to our Allies. He speaks through the Congress man who implies that President Roosevelt was the Judas of Pearl Harbor, and through Governor Bricker who implies that the war was devised to provide jobs for the jobless. These are poisonous ideas that catch on easily and break down people's determination to see this war through to the bitter...
...Lionel Barrymore, who heads a Hollywood committee backing Dewey and Bricker, was given an impressive reception when, speaking from a wheel chair, he told the crowd they were soon to hear the voice of a new, vibrant, forceful and courageous leader...
...nine weeks the Chicago Tribune had run colored front-page cartoons built around a campaign jingle: "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER." But the New Deal-hating Tribune had puzzled its readers. It had failed to find a four-color jingle lampooning Franklin Roosevelt. Last week a braying Democratic jackass appeared on Page One, bearing aloft a banner: "BACK ON RELIEF WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF...