Word: brickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-haired John Bricker rolled on in his prodigious Western tour, preaching the straight Republican gospel morning, noon & night, sometimes making nine speeches in a 15-hour day of traveling. He stumped Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, riding hatless up dozens of main streets in dozens of shiny open automobiles. Applause followed his tall, white-crested figure constantly, but it was hard to tell whether his muscular evangelism was bringing Democrat sinners forward to be saved or merely firing the faithful with enthusiasm...
...Presidents . . . have died in office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...
...heard. Last week all that lay behind them. Both were out on the road, armed with their trusty old campaign weapons, the hearty handshake and the corny joke. If nobody in New York or Washington seemed to know where they had gone, they cared not. Harry Truman and John Bricker were back among The People...
...John Bricker, who had not seen Tom Dewey for ten weeks, crossed the Cascade Mountains on a 94-speech, 9,250-mile tour, and headed south. He soothed Tacoma, Wash. Republicans who had been miffed because Dewey had bypassed their town. After Bricker spoke, the county chairman, 260-lb. Dr. Hinton D. Jonez, beamed: "The patient's wounds have been sewed and the sheets pulled up. The Republicans of this county are resting easily." Bricker gobbled a Delicious Yakima apple, steered a Puget Sound ferry, pitched the opening ball in Wenatchee for a major-league barnstormers' game...
...gravel at Grants Pass, Medford and Roseburg. In Oregon, too, he made the voters slap their legs with a charge against the Democratic Administration-that the New Deal had spent $2.97 per rat (you can buy a chicken for $2.97) in a Louisiana rat extermination campaign. In San Francisco, Bricker and party overcrowded an elevator, were stalled in it for ten minutes, finally crawled...