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...Taftmen's signals jammed. When Coleman got back to the floor, Ohio's Senator John Bricker had moved to adopt the 1948 rules, and the Eisenhower forces had offered a substitute motion-the now-celebrated Langlie amendment (providing that delegations contested by more than 33⅓% of the national committee might not vote on other contests). Who told Bricker to make his motion? Chairman Gabrielson, who at that point was apparently thinking about routine, not about Taft tactics. Things were happening so fast that Coleman had to pick the nearest Taftman available to raise the point of order...
...next one out. In 1944 he was the chief architect of the Republican platform while his fellow Ohioan, John Bricker, took a run for President and wound up as the vice-presidential candidate. Not long after the election returns were in, Taft had forgotten his "never again." He traveled 30,000 miles and made 500 speeches before the 1948 convention, but then the high-powered Dewey machine ran him down...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "How Can the Western Democracies Avert World War III?" Ohio's Senator John W. Bricker and former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts. Moderator: Columnist Marquis Childs...
...smiling as a band of anti-Taft Harvard students hoisted placards proclaiming a Taft cabinet: Joe McCarthy for Attorney General, Chiang Kai-shek as Secretary of State, General MacArthur as Secretary of Defense, Fred Hartley (of Taft-Hartley) as Secretary of Labor, and Ohio's Senator John Bricker as Secretary of Commerce...
...magazine has pointed out why the Administration's weak foreign policy has failed more often than it has succeeded, has relentlessly fought Communism, and every form of statism, inveighed against materialist influences in U.S. courts and education. Among its noteworthy articles: one by Ohio's Senator John Bricker pointing out that the U.N.'s Covenant of Human Rights was full of traps for the West, and a widely reprinted piece by George Schuyler, an editor of the Negro Pittsburgh Courier, punching holes in the Communist-drawn picture of the "enslaved" American Negro...