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Last year intramural Club difficulties within the Forum over matters of representation resulted in the cancelling by Senators Bridges and Bricker of their scheduled speeches...
...that time the refusal of the Young Republican Club, headed by John Thomson '57, to participate in the Forum crippled it almost fatally. Thomson was charged with having influenced Senator John Bricker (Rep.-Ohio), to cancel his scheduled speech before the Forum on his controversial amendment. Thomson refused to commit his club because he felt that the HYRC, as the largest political organization in the College, was not receiving sufficient representation and that his organization should function "in a completely independent and distinct frame of reference...
...voting record of support (88% in the 83rd Congress, 91% in the 84th) for the Eisenhower Administration, but he has made some of his biggest, blackest headlines breaking with the Administration. Perhaps the low point, in the Administration's eyes, came during the 1954 debate on the Bricker amendment, designed to dilute the President's treaty-making power. Just when Senate leadership was needed most, Knowland abandoned his majority leader's desk, walked to the rear of the Senate, announced that he was speaking as a rank-and-file Senator, and argued in favor of the amendment...
...Senate, Knowland has won the regard of the old Taft loyalists. He publicly urged the Republican national committee to give them responsible assignments during the 1956 campaign. Although he followed his considered judgment of the merits in each case, his votes for the Bricker amendment and against the censure of Joe McCarthy (even the club's pariahs have their rights, reasoned Knowland) further endeared him to the Republican right wing. But there is a wide gulf between Knowland and the Neanderthals-the McCarthys, the Bill Jenners and the "Molly" Malones. The gulf was widened considerably last fall when Knowland...
...Nebraska's Third District, following a hard-fought battle between two candidates who both favored the Bricker amendment and opposed foreign aid northeast Nebraska's drought-suffering farmers blamed their misfortune on Ezra Benson-Backer Robert D. Harrison, 59. Democrat Lawrence Brock shocked Republican Nebraska by winning the home vote, 61,295 to 60,166. But when 3,500 absentee ballots had been opened. Republican Harrison won his fourth term by a narrow...