Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oklahoma. Though the state is still overwhelmingly Democratic in voter registration, Senator Mike Monroney is only slightly ahead of Goldwater Republican B. Hayden Crawford, a former U.S. attorney...
...Democrats' factionalism has also hurt Senator Mike Monroney in his campaign for a third term. Hot after Monroney is Republican B. (for Burnett) Hayden Crawford, 40, a former U.S. attorney, who earned his spurs by winning a healthy 45% of the vote in his unsuccessful attempt to beat Bob Kerr in 1960. Crawford is stumping the state with a straight-out conservative approach that bristles with talk of anti-socialism, antiCommunism, anti-medicare and anti-federal aid to education...
...called the "handful" of Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...
...including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive $11 million in aid to dependent children. Thus it was really Democrat Kerr, who also carried Oklahoma Colleague Monroney along with him, who really beat Kennedy...
...bugged him all through the tense (and potentially dangerous) moments of takeoff have only one purpose: to make life more pleasant in those residential areas. But last week representatives of the Airline Pilots Association, and of the engineers who fly with them, were protesting in Washington to Senator Mike Monroney's Aviation Subcommittee. Noise abatement, they argued, may be a blessing to an airport's neighbors; it is a menace to anyone who flies...