Word: monroney
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...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...
...getting MATS out of the hair of the private airlines, Monroney figured Congress will re-equip it, okay development of a new U.S. cargo plane jointly sponsored by the Government and private airframe manufacturers. Says he: "I don't care whether it's pure jet or turbine propeller. In the kind of brush war businesses that may be ahead, we want a large capacity aircraft that will operate in and out of short fields." Such a cargo plane would be equally useful to commercial carriers. But Congress would not okay appropriations for such a plane until MATS...
...battle, Monroney enlisted a powerhouse of support: the National Security Council, Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharpe, Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Elwood R. Quesada (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the White House. MATS did not yield without a fight. Even in the face of official Air Force approval, it still has its diehard advocates of military competition with business. But at week's end, the word had gone out from the Air Force's vice chief of staff, General Curtis LeMay, to MATS officers that they must support the new policy...