Word: mikes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nose Count. Democrat Johnson, leaving early for an Easter vacation on his LBJ ranch in Texas, had put Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader, in his chair as straw boss. Johnson also left orders that Bill Fulbright's bill was to be pushed through fast. Mansfield made a try; in the best Johnson tradition he threatened to keep the Senate sitting for as long as necessary to debate and pass the measure. But Bill Knowland's nose count showed that the G.O.P. had votes enough to stall the Fulbright bill at least until after Easter...
Thus fortified, Knowland rose on the Senate floor to move for a fortnight's postponement. Immediately. Straw Boss Mansfield took the floor, moved to table (i.e., kill) Knowland's motion, thereupon brought on a vote. Mike Mansfield's motion lost 41-36 (39 Republicans, plus Virginia's Harry Byrd and Ohio's Frank Lausche. voting against it), with Lyndon Johnson and twelve other sorely needed Democrats absent...
...like Mr. Randolph Churchill, but in the matter of his outburst with John Wingate [March 17], I am all for him. If more people had the guts to stand up to characters like Mike Wallace and Lawrence Spivak, TV interviews might not degenerate into exhibitionism only fit for sadists...
General Norstad's reception was symptomatic of congressional lollygagging on both foreign aid and foreign trade. The Capitol Hill attitude was best summed up by one of the absent committee members, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who prides himself on being a leading Democratic light on foreign relations. "The Administration," said Mansfield last week, "is pushing foreign aid, and for that matter foreign trade, as paramount issues at the very moment the people are much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks...
...over both the army and the secret police; there will be small chance for the rise of another Zhukov. But in the realities of Communist power, Khrushchev has already wielded that power, has been unabashedly making the Soviet government's decisions for some time. Commented Democratic U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield pungently: "The only difference is that the guy who used to dictate the letters now is signing them...