Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates who have come forward (or, in accordance with Rule 7, have been pushed) for 1944, the man who most exactly fits these specifications is Ohio's Governor John William Bricker. Therefore, he is a formidable force in the jockeying for the '44 Republican convention. He is strong enough already to make his friends confident and his enemies bitter. Ohio, a Mother of Presidents, is expecting again; and even to anti-Bricker-men Ohio is in an interesting condition...
Ohio, part of the Industrial East and also of the Agricultural Midwest, a barometer standing where all U.S. political currents converge, has already produced seven Presidents: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding. And John Bricker, who won his third term as Governor last November by a record 374,000 votes, is the greatest vote-getter in vote-getting Ohio's history...
...Surely the Republican Party . . . cannot be so craven that it would conspire to sneak into victory with no issue but Bricker and a bellyache...
...Bricker is an honest Harding. Thumbs down...
...editorial gave Republican leaders plenty to think and talk about last week. G.O.P. tongues also wagged when Bricker and James A. Farley, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, attended a lunch given in their joint honor by a Cincinnati businessman-and were photographed arm around shoulder...