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...state legislature. But even as popular Newcomer Rockefeller got what he wanted in the way of tax increases and a pay-as-you-go budget, dark thoughts were percolating behind one steadily smiling face in the legislative crowd. Liberal, Manhattan-rooted Rocky had steamrollered upstate Conservative Walter Joseph Mahoney out of the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination, and Senate Majority Leader Mahoney was not disposed to forgive...
Convivial Walter Mahoney, a Republican Roman Catholic, was elected state senator from Buffalo at 28, three years out of law school, won his way by hard work and political savvy to the majority leadership in 1954. He soon formed a rural, right-wing opposition to Rockefeller's state-financed welfare program, demanded a token tax cut that Rocky fought off with the help and ill-concealed smiles of Democrats. Ten days after Rockefeller withdrew from the Republican presidential race, Mahoney endorsed Vice President Nixon-the only state party official thus far who has not followed Rockefeller's example...
...reduced its estimate of future Russian missile production by judging Russian "intentions" instead of "capabilities." One day last week Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announced casually that Gates's nomination was going to be held up because "several Senators" had questioned it (actually, only Wyoming Democrat Joe O'Mahoney, recovering from a stroke at the Bethesda naval hospital, had asked for an additional day to study Gates's testimony). Just as casually he let Gates know after the next day's tough headlines that the nomination would go through. It did, by voice vote...
...Dudley Mahoney...
...like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could lead to "the destruction of the greatest industrial machine the world has thus far known...