Word: candidatevandenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stop Landon/- CandidateVandenberg took the spotlight one day by announcing in Washington that he would refuse the Vice Presidential nomination, thereby killing Kansas' hopes of a Landon-Vandenberg ticket. Two days later the Michigan Senator arrived in Cleveland, primed to add his bit to the dying "Stop Landon" movement. Oldtime Senator Moses, manager for Candidate Knox, spluttered angrily about Landon attempts to stampede "a deliberative assembly" and "frighten" delegates by extravagant claims of strength. By radio the New Hampshire Old Guardsman boomed: "This is a crisis and it must be treated as such. It must be dealt with...
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