Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position of Senate majority whip opened, and Johnson had considerable backing for the post. Bobby, naturally, heard about it, and decided to help out. Said he, years later: "I kept leaking stories to the newspapers that Johnson had the inside track; that in a showdown he would have the votes." Obviously it is impossible to say today just how much Baker's affairs had to do with John son's election-but the Baker-sponsored bandwagon movement certainly did not impair Lyndon's chances. Johnson saw to it that Baker was named assistant Democratic Senate secretary...
...Pyrotechnics. Mansfield told the Senate that he had appointed Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, a longtime champion of civil rights,* as floor manager of the bill. Humphrey will have one Democratic deputy for each of the bill's three major sections: Washington's Warren Magnuson on public accommodations, Pennsylvania's Joe Clark on FEPC, Michigan's Philip Hart on new judicial procedures...
Since 1947 no Harvard basketball team has finished in the first division of the Ivy League, but this tradition of frustration will be broken if the Crimson quintet can whip Cornell and Columbia this week...
...Yard breathed an audible sigh of relief-this week as two previously winless, teams finally hit the victory column. The basketball squad, after seven straight defeats, staged a second half rally to whip. Brown 72-64, and, the fencing team came up with it a first win is three outings by squeezing past Bradford Durfee...
...straying from the straight Administration line could expect to hear from the White House pronto. Three Justice Department lawyers stood on the sidelines, ready to provide replies to opposition arguments. The liberal Democratic Study Group, an informal organization of like-minded members, had its own 21-man whip system, successfully kept some 130 Northern liberals...