Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Democratic conference under the New Frontier. At that meeting, new Majority Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that Vice President Johnson continue in his post as presiding officer of meetings of the Senate Democratic conference. A group of Democrats, including Tennessee's Albert Gore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, protested that it meant an invasion by the executive branch...
...delivered a lackluster five-minute speech: "I can assure you, in the '60s, as the U.S. carries the standard of freedom everywhere in the world, we will also be carrying the standard of progress here in Oklahoma." There were some perfunctory pats for Bob Kerr, Senator Mike Monroney and Representative Carl Albert. Then the President snipped a ribbon across the newly completed highway...
...into Washington and called on some Senators whom they had not visited in years, telling each one of labor's reputed strength at the polls. They concentrated their fire on the biggest single threat to the Kennedy bill: an amendment by Oklahoma's middle-road Democrat Mike Monroney to exempt retail and service firms that do business in only one state. That amendment had lost by a cliffhanging 50 to 48 last summer, and now Monroney thought he had a chance of winning...
Republican Switch. When the key vote came last week, every single Democrat who had supported the Monroney amendment last summer voted for it again. The labor lobbyists swung the tide for Kennedy by picking up five new G.O.P. votes, mostly from Senators who represent states with potent labor blocs-New York's Kenneth Keating, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Delaware's Caleb Boggs and Iowa's Jack Miller. After the Monroney amendment went down 56 to 39, the Kennedy bill breezed through...
Died. The Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, 45, strapping, red-haired pastor of Oklahoma City's egg-shaped First Christian Church, onetime chaplain of the Republican National Committee, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950 and lost to Democrat Mike Monroney; when his twin-engined plane crashed into a milk truck at Camp Hill, Pa., also killing his wife Marylouise, 36, and their pilot...