Word: mansfield
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...evil, and safeguards in the bill that leaned toward, if they did not wholly embrace Fourth and Eighth Amendment rights. Proponents applauded its proposals for such reforms as an overhaul of the District's clogged court system and a public-defender program. The fine distinctions, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield asserted, could be decided later in the courts. Opposition Leader Ervin protested that by then the D.C. bill would be a model for a federal law affecting the entire nation. The American Civil Liberties Union moved quickly to close the time gap. The day after the bill was passed...
...playwright, however, fashioned his leading character partly with the celebrated American actor Richard Mansfield in mind. Mansfield was the first man to introduce Shaw to American audiences, through his appearance in 1894 as Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, which lasted only a couple of weeks. Nothing daunted, however, Mansfield starred in The Devil's Disciple as soon as it was finished. If Shaw enjoyed writing the play, he doubly enjoyed having written the play-for Mansfield's production turned out to be Shaw's first theatrical success anywhere in the world. It gave him financial security sufficient...
...most serious measure passed so far by the government is the Mansfield amendment which cut off all funds granted by the defense department to colleges "unless they have a direct bearing to the military." The Mansfield measure was a liberal one, designed to curb defense department influence. Yet conservatives in Congress have been active too. The strongest measures proposed would cut off funds to all colleges at which "there is a substantial disruption of the administration, or where professors or officials are prevented from pursuing their studies or duties...
Programming Trouble. Calling an unusual joint news conference, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker John McCormack and House Majority Leader Carl Albert signaled the Democratic assault on the G.O.P. with a coordinated blast at Nixon's economic policies. Nixon, they said, should call a national conference to extricate the country from its "economic morass." The attractiveness of the economic issue is obvious. One can be accused of excessive partisanship for criticizing the President's foreign policy. To attack the Administration for provoking domestic unrest is to risk a backlash from those weary of dissent. Appealing...
...accused Nixon of informing leaders of veterans' and retired officers' groups about his Cambodian plans two days before Congress and the nation were told on April 30. The White House denied it. Other, less vehement critics of the war were also on the attack. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said that the U.S. was in danger of being dragged into Saigon's territorial ambitions "in Laos, Cambodia and God knows where else...