Word: mansfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With that, half a dozen Senators-including Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey-scrambled from their seats and bolted toward waiting limousines for the one-mile dash to Capitol Hill. About the only Senator left was Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, who, in the words of an envious colleague, "never moved...
Accordingly, Majority Leader Mansfield has quickened the pace of the six-week-old debate by lengthening sessions, sometimes running them from 10 a.m. until midnight. He was not yet ready to order round-the-clock sessions, but night after soft spring night, a light burned in the cupola of the Capitol to tell the city that the Senate was at work...
...Jane Mansfield, a speedy sophomore from Whitman Hall, proved as outstanding as her namesake, as she won three races for East House. Swimmer Mansfield broke meet records in the 40-yard free-style and 40-yard backstroke, with times of 22.6 seconds and 26.7 seconds, respectively...
...truants ordering them back to Washington on the double, followed up with 36 personal phone calls. The next quorum call, two days later, was met. But still absent were nine of Humphrey's Democratic supporters and six pro-civil rights Republicans. With that, Humphrey and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield summoned offending Democrats to a special meeting, urged them to mend their ways and handed out a list of scheduled quorum calls through mid-May. Seven Senators didn't show up for that session either...
...this criterion is used, the best Democratic nominee would be Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey wants the nomination. He has solid support from labor (although labor has not often proved to be a solid political force). But Humphrey might be too valuable to Johnson in the Senate. Sen. Mansfield, called by some "his own worst critic," reportedly will cede the Majority Leadership to Humphrey in the next Congress. Paradoxically, then, if Humphrey is outstanding in handling the civil rights bill he could impair his own chances to be vice-President...