Word: mansfield
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...President. More varied reaction may come next month when the Senate considers ratification of the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. Approval of the pact may well be delayed, but it is unlikely that the Senate will kill the agreement. One clue to Congress' attitude came from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who had been pressing for additional reductions in the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe. Further cutbacks "at this time" are not feasible, he said last week. His Republican counterpart, Everett Dirksen, suggested an embargo on trade with the Soviets. In the nation, there was a notable lack of hysteria. The mood...
United Aircraft Corp., whose East Hartford, Conn., executive suite has been as stable as Fairchild's has been shaky, announced the Oct. 1 retirement at 65 of Chairman Horace Mansfield Horner, only the second boss that the huge aerospace company has had since it was founded 34 years ago. "Jack" Horner is the son of an early backer of Pratt & Whitney, United's creator. An engineer (Yale '26), he joined the engine maker right after graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine...
Within three hours after the Central Park shootings, and referring directly to them, President Johnson again pleaded with Congress to "pass the gun-control measures which are needed to protect the American people against insane and reckless murder by gunfire." Congressional reaction was muted. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, under heavy pressure from Montana hunters to oppose gun-control legislation, compromised by repeating his support for a moderate law sponsored by Maryland's Joseph Tydings while rejecting Johnson's measure requiring the registration of all firearms in the U.S. Congressional mail, which had overwhelmingly supported tough gun controls...
...more than a month before the 1956 election, when the nation also had a chance to change its leadership. Chief Justice John Marshall was appointed by his friend John Adams only a few weeks before Thomas Jefferson was to take office. If the G.O.P. argument were followed through, noted Mansfield, "any time a President was elected to a second term, he would become a lame duck on the very first day of that term." Johnson himself was heard to mutter: "Some people think that the presidency should go into receivership during the next seven months...
...Force Secretary, and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith. Their arguments: Sentinel is worthless and would merely prompt both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build more offensive missiles. Eugene McCarthy interrupted his presidential campaign to denounce the ABM system on the Senate floor and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, deserting the Administration, blistered the Pentagon: "The Department of Defense just asks what it wants, and this Congress will give it to them. You can never satisfy them...