Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy, decent family life, but suddenly there we were with no real means of support. I had to do things that would show my brother and sisters that I could be a leader." He got his chance after Oakland Scout Connie Ryan saw him pitch one night in Mansfield and excitedly reported back to Finley: "He is the best lefthander I have seen in nine years of scouting...
...Communist offer brought some prompt expressions of interest on Capitol Hill. "These proposals mark a different point of departure," said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, sponsor of the end-the-war amendment. On the Republican side, Senator Hugh Scott agreed: "Now we can start negotiating seriously...
...vote, hawks were able to gut an amendment to the draft extension bill that would have cut off all funds for U.S. military operations in Indochina within nine months. The Senate then went on to pass with ease, 57 to 42, a bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield that urged the President to withdraw all troops in nine months but did not include a cutoff of funds...
Meanwhile, newspapers across the country have leaped to the Times's defense and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said yesterday the Senate will hold hearings on the Pentagon's study "regardless of what the decision of the court...
...recent unilateral decision to allow the Deutsche Mark to float; the action, designed to combat West German inflation, upset other members of the Six and helped persuade Pompidou that some counterweight to German power was needed. Another favorable development was the U.S. Senate's defeat of the Mansfield resolution, which alarmed Europeans by calling for a 50% cut in American troop strength on the Continent by year's end. The Senate's action buttressed European hopes that NATO will be in a strong bargaining position in any future talks with the Warsaw Pact on balanced, mutual troop...