Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slogan seemed to be catching on. It had traveled from mouth to mouth from the moment Candidate John Bricker, cracking at the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, used it fortnight ago. Delighted GOPsters played it to a fare-ye-well; perhaps they had hold of a really damaging weapon, a phrase that would turn out to be as telling as "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" proved to be in 1884, or "Turn the rascals...
...Dowey would make a capable administrator, I think it is important to maintain the present administration. Not because Roosevelt and Hull are 'indispensable', but because I believe they have a decidedly more genuine internationalistic policy. I feel quite certain that the recent espousals of international cooperation by Dewey and Bricker are nothing more than political opportunism, nor do I think that either are profoundly attached to the principle of a cooperative world organization...
...Louis, he assembled his team of 24 Governors and his right bower, Vice Presidential Nominee John W. Bricker, and put them right to work. If any of the Governors had envisioned his trip to St. Louis as a midsummer junket, full of fun & games, he was sorely disappointed. Candidate Dewey had his class report at 10 a.m. the first day, and the atmosphere was clearly one of Positively No Excuses for Tardiness...
...Brickers. Candidate Bricker was brought up as a Congregationalist, his wife as an Episcopalian. For the past twelve years they have been active members of the First Community Church (with members representing 27 sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School...
...Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. John W. Bricker spent a homey afternoon talking to reporters at New York's Executive Mansion while their husbands talked campaign strategy (see U.S. AT WAR). They talked of the Dewey children, and Mrs. Bricker remarked on how nicely they "melted out of the room." Said Mrs. Dewey: "Oh, you're just being guestly, but it's very sweet of you." When the conversation got round to hobbies, Mrs. Bricker admitted that she collected early American glassware, but Mrs. Dewey said she had dropped her hobby: "When I was very young...