Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Highlights of Hope's Christmastime tour to entertain servicemen in the North Atlantic, with Jayne Mansfield, Jerry Colonna...
...predictable party-line statements resounded across Capitol Hill as soon as the President had finished talking. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to see in John F. Kennedy's State of the Union message "the authentic earmark of greatness." To Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen it was "like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue with the old prices marked up." Indiana's G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart described it as "more inconsistent than any message I have listened to in my eighteen years in the U.S. Senate." And new House Ma jority Leader Carl Albert called it "the finest State...
Power & Trappings. McCormack is the first Roman Catholic to attain the speakership; one of the futile arguments mentioned by the anti-McCormack press was that with one Catholic in the White House and another, Mike Mansfield, leading the Senate Democrats, it would be asking too much of non-Catholics to elevate a third to the speakership. At 70, McCormack is the second-oldest man to win election (the oldest: Illinois' Henry Rainey, who was 72 when elected Speaker in 1933). He is the third Northern Democrat to become Speaker in this century. The seventh Bay Stater to lead...
...President Kennedy's programs, with the single exception of the Administration's aid-to-education bill, which he opposed because it did not include assistance to parochial schools. There is some feeling that Roman Catholic McCormack's joining Catholics Kennedy and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield in the topmost level of executive-legislative leadership might be pushing things...
...about all the Senate could do was sputter. Cried Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "This is indeed an outrage perpetrated on the Senate." Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey threatened reprisal at the next session: "We're going to have some legislative regurgitation." Cried Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally mild to a fault: "We have taken a shellacking, and I think it's outrageous." Then the Senate, faced by the House fait accompli, swallowed hard, approved the bill, and adjourned...