Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas E. Dewey. a longtime Willkie enemy, had read himself out of the 1944 Presidential race. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. who will never forgive Willkie for taking the G.O.P. nomination away from him in 1940, had withdrawn in favor of Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker. Michigan's potent Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg had also withdrawn, in favor of nobody in particular...
...setting for the revitalization of the Old Guard, and Taft and his mates carefully molded antagonism for Willkie with recent election gains to force the selection of a middle-of-the-road isolationist, Harrison Spangler, as national chairman. And in the same week, Taft busily announced support of John Bricker, another "balance the budget" bulwark for the 1944 nomination...
While the right claims victory on one hand, the Willkie wing, supported by recent Gallup polls, purports to hold the actual leadership of the party. In one corner the Spangler-Taft-Bricker coalition prepares to wrest the coming nomination, while the Willkie-Stassen group marshals its strength for the 1944 test. As a result, the present Congress lacks the critical eye of a unified minority, and the Old Guard continues to approach their old level of influence...
Taft and cautious John Bricker, both favorite sons, made a mutual assistance pact before 1940. Bricker promised then not to compete for delegates at Philadelphia. Taft gave the assurance that if his campaign were unsuccessful he would step aside for friend Bricker...
Midwest politicos believe John Bricker can consolidate the center and extreme right factions of the G.O.P. Always careful, ready to take no definite stand except on economy, he cannot be tagged as isolationist, or Old Guard. As Governor he has not been forced to take a positive position on national or international affairs. In his first year as Governor (1939) he turned a $40,000,000 deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus by airtight squeezing of the State treasury, and at the expense of cities, school districts, public relief. When a relief crisis developed late that year, many...