Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance). One day it's the National Distillers Convention in Chicago, the next a small club date in New York State. The routines are generally just that. Working in his own custom-designed U.S.O. uniform, he bats out long, involved stories or one-liners ("I look at Jayne Mansfield and think, 'If only Nasser had them for tonsils'"). Then he winds up telling about his U.S.O. tours and plugs the Administration's Viet Nam policy...
...than pleased to give Lyndon Johnson special permission to order the machinists back to work. But Lyndon did not share that enthusiasm. He wanted Congress to take the political responsibility for a back-to-work order. Compromise after compromise was tried, to the point that Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield once glanced down at his paper-littered desk and confessed that there were so many compromises in the works, he just didn't know which was the current order of business...
...Business losses mounted at a daily rate of close to $20 million. The airlines were losing more than $7,000,000 in revenue every day. In all, some 3,100,000 would-be passengers were delayed or grounded. By last week, such congressional leaders as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen agreed with the Civil Aeronautics Board that the nation faced "an emergency situation of major proportions...
WESTBURY, N.Y., New Westbury Music Fair: Jayne Mansfield adds an exclamation point to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
With that, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield decided that the Senate's interest in keeping its private business private-as well as protecting the CIA-was more important than its long-held pride in open debate. He asked for an extraordinary secret session, only the second held since the middle of World War II.* "Things might be said that aren't particularly true and could be harmful," reasoned Mansfield. "Rumor and hearsay can be damaging...