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...York, a committee of oldtime Republicans began plugging both General Douglas MacArthur ("Soldier") and Ohio's Governor John Bricker ("Statesman") for the Presidency with equal fervor, waited to see which, if either, would catch fire...
...Columbus, Ohio, Governor John W. Bricker bided his time. His friends, in Indianapolis and elsewhere, wanted to get his Presidential campaign rolling, but the good Governor waited for a popular mandate. He sat modestly expecting the lightning, while friends and observers could see hardly a cloud...
Editorialized the St. Louis Post-Dis patch, which backed Franklin Roosevelt in 1940: "Messrs. Dewey, Bricker, Taft, Vandenberg and other Republican hopefuls have been silent, ambiguous or restrained. . . . Yet no Missouri questionnaire goes out. . . . Is Willkie running so far ahead of the field for the 1944 nomination that Missouri Republican leaders . . . feel he must be killed off politically before that time...
Editor William Allen White is no admirer of Ohio's pink-cheeked Governor John W. Bricker ("An honest Harding. Thumbs down!"). Individualist White has never cared for teeming mobs. Now Editor White put both dislikes together. Plump Governor Bricker had finally plumped for internationalism (TIME, July 5). Veteran Internationalist White eyed the swelling crowd of internationalists, was suddenly seized with ochlophobia. In his famed Emporia, Kans. Gazette, Editor White fumed his way through a maze of metaphors toward the nearest exit...
...least when politicians like Bricker keep climbing on the band wagon, it is time to stop, look and listen...