Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What makes Byrd the likely successor to Montana's patient, low-keyed Mike Mansfield, now retired after 16 years in the post? Hardly a popular Senate member or even a "Club" insider, Byrd has made the Senate work. He has labored relentlessly and generally with fairness to satisfy the whims and needs of his fellow Democrats. During his six years as majority whip, Byrd has stayed on the floor through long dreary hours, rounding up Senators for an important vote or delaying action on a bill when a legislator was on a campaign tour, a junket or simply a binge...
...election this fall because of ill health and because, he said, Washington needed new faces and new ideas. In a rare tribute, his fellow Senators expressed their esteem by voting to name their new Senate office building for him. Said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "He was the best one of the last 25 years...
President Bok names Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, bi-weekly professor of Government, to serve as chairman of the Government Department on the third Tuesday of every other month. Moynihan's partner, Harvey Mansfield, announces that he is "very happy" to have a partner in the crusade against grade inflation...
President Bok names Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Gov. Department honcho, to replace Hale Champion, the outgoing financial vice president. Gov. Chairman Mansfield explains that Moynihan's experience fighting grade inflation at Harvard makes him the best candidate for the fiscal post...
...never-ending battle against grade inflation, Gov. Chairman Mansfield announces that he will review every paper written by an undergraduate that receives a grade higher than D-plus. "I think we've finally broken that pesky inflationary spiral," Mansfield boasts...