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...friend once said of Ohio Realtor John Wilmer Galbreath: "The thing you must remember is that John must have success." At 52, John has it. When his old friend Senator John Bricker was attorney general of Ohio, Galbreath was named a real estate appraiser for the state. (Later he and Bricker formed an insurance company together.) Galbreath spread into the real estate business on his own, became president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and bought an estimated $10 million worth of property scattered from Hoboken, N.J. to Utah. He also became part owner (with Bing Crosby...
Others joined in, urging the building of the H-bomb: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Republican Senator John Bricker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator Tom Connally...
...Congress. In 1932 he was elected lieutenant governor, and two years later he filed for the governorship, but he was licked in the primaries by Tree Surgeon Martin L. Davey, a college friend. In 1938 he beat Davey in a bitter primary campaign, but lost to Republican John Bricker...
...surprised no one to find crusading Paul Douglas leading the attack on the Dixiecrats' filibuster over civil rights. But his choices have often been harder than that, as when John Bricker slyly added an anti-segregation amendment to the housing bill. Torn between two causes he believes in, Douglas characteristically chose the immediate issue of housing and blasted the amendment for what it was: an attempt to kill the bill by rousing the Southerners against...
Ruefully, Douglas admitted that he had probably succeeded only in "getting everyone angry and cutting my own political throat from ear to ear." The vote proved otherwise. By a vote of 49 to 31, eight Republicans helped 41 Democrats slap down John Bricker's non-segregation amendment. Among the eight Republicans was Ohio's senior Senator Robert Taft. After that, there was only one more major hurdle to take...