Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have Met the Enemy. . . ." It had not been so cut & dried at first, while other hopefuls still had hope. Handsome John Bricker, tailor-fresh in a blue tropical suit, arrived in town to the strains of Beautiful Ohio from his own brass band. But three days later, jarred to the heels when Illinois caucused and threw its strength to Dewey, the Bricker forces held a desperate eleventh-hour strategy meeting...
Your story on Candidate Bricker's speech (TIME, May 8) has a puzzling reference. You show Bricker saying: ". . . Personally, I have always felt that the United States should join the World Court...
Other candidates were not playing hide-&-seek. Ohio's John W. Bricker wound up a 3O-state, 20,000-mile campaign tour in which he had put himself on record more plainly than any other candidate. He talked off-the-record to Washington's 78 Club (freshman G.O.P. Congressmen). Friendly, forthright, he sent them off in a real glow of admiration...
...people, and it would signify that the elected leaders had taken seriously their responsibility to choose the best man. If Tom Dewey showed dominance on this ballot, as was generally expected, he could win on Ballot No. 2; but if he did not win easily then, John Bricker would have his chance-and dark horses could hope for theirs...
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, about to address most of the 300-odd citizens of Brickerville, Pa., stopped short, peered into the crowd, shouted: "Henry, what are you doing here?" Beavered, 80-year-old Henry Bricker, who had come from Bradford, Ohio for the occasion, joined his second cousin on the platform...