Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Mansfield was visibly distressed by the unexpected turn of events. Said he: "I must say that the way of the straw boss is hard. I wish the distinguished minority leader had seen fit to put this power play into operation while the distinguished majority leader was on the floor and in charge." But Mansfield overlooked one point. Republicans, however small their victory, exhibited the tightest White House-to-Senate leadership-to-floor teamwork displayed so far this season...
Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson cautioned that Diefenbaker's vision might endanger relations with Canada's closest neighbor and best customer, the U.S. But Diefenbaker's speeches, vibrating with evangelical fervor, wrung cheers from Newfoundland fishermen who still use Elizabethan turns of speech, touched off one of melting-pot Winnipeg's wildest political demonstrations. And most surprising, it galvanized French-speaking Liberal Quebec into returning the biggest Tory delegation (50 of 75 seats) it has ever sent to Ottawa...
...once interviewed Stalin's mother), the Chicago Tribune's William (Berlin Diary) Shirer, and Author Sheean, Correspondent Gunther busily soaked up lore and legends that never made the news stories. Gunther's most valuable mentor: the New York Evening Post's M. W. (''Mike") Fodor, dean of Balkan correspondents, who helped the young Chicagoan so generously that fellow newsmen later dubbed Inside Europe "Inside Fodor...
...composedly kept returning to a pat explanation for Egypt's antagonism toward the U.S. and its allies: "We are defending ourselves" against "hostile action." For CBS, the filmed interview was a clean beat, made sweeter by the fact that when the show went on the air, ABC Interviewer Mike Wallace had a crew still waiting to grill him in Cairo. Last spring, when Khrushchev faced the CBS cameras, the network drew criticism for letting his remarks go on the air without an immediate rebuttal. This time, CBS cautiously topped its interview with able News Analyst Howard K. Smith...
Another attack on such chiseling by "a few unscrupulous dealers" is being led by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. He has sponsored a bill requiring that every new car in a showroom be clearly labeled with the maker's list price. Some Detroit carmakers are privately in favor of the bill as a way of regaining customer trust...