Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker, the candidate who actually says he wants to be President, plugged valiantly away. As the only candidate actually campaigning, Honest John took not a single day's rest. At the Governor's Conference (TIME, June 5) he talked on tax and fiscal policy. He said nothing sensational, but he got in some characteristic licks for budget balancing and streamlined taxation...
...most other Governors went home for a well-earned rest, John Bricker motored on to Brickerville, Pa., the tiny hamlet (pop. 223) founded in 1732 by Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Bricker. There, the thrifty, devout Amishmen cheered when he plumped for free enterprise...
...held a lengthy press conference, spoke at a G.O.P. luncheon and dinner, met most of the members of Connecticut's unpledged delegation to the national convention. When the news came in that Indiana's G.O.P. convention had refused to instruct its delegates for Tom Dewey, John Bricker said: "They won't be stampeded. The convention must be a deliberative...
...seemed unlikely, but he went on gaining strength from all the Stop-Deweyites, and perhaps from the many citizens who have always been allergic to Tom Dewey and are now relishing the rising smear-Dewey campaign in the New Deal press. (Columnist Walter Winchell reported that odds on Bricker had dropped from 20-to-1 to 3-to-1.) His campaign, John Bricker said, would go on right up to convention time...
...Ohio, Democrats last week nominated the Mayor of Cleveland, and Republicans the Mayor of Cincinnati, to succeed John Bricker as Governor. Cleveland's able Frank Lausche (rhymes with howshay), his party's hottest vote getter in a decade (TIME, Nov. 15), got 30,000 more votes than his five opponents combined. Democrats jubilantly figured he might not only win the Governorship but also lure Republican Ohio into the Term IV column in November...