Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adviser, John Foster Dulles, reflected even less. On his return he conferred in Washington with the man most responsible for the so-called bipartisan U.S. foreign policy-Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Then Dulles made a frank report-more informative than Secretary Marshall's-to the U.S. people...
Canada's good neighbor, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan, is worried about a vacant chair. For 37 years, ever since the Pan American Union moved into its marble-and-mahogany palace on Washington's 17th Street, 21 chairs (one for each of the American republics) have stood around the board of governors' table. In the basement, under wraps, is a 22nd chair, identical with the others except that on its high back are carved the name and arms of Canada...
...nomination had been opposed by the weight of the G.O.P. leadership-Policy Committee Chairman Robert Taft, Majority Leader Wallace White, Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry-and 23 GOPsters had loyally backed them up. But more significant was the fact that 20 Republicans had broken away to follow the lead of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in voting for confirmation. With 37 of the 44 Democrats voting or paired for approval, the truant Republicans provided the margin of victory. It was a personal triumph for Arthur Vandenberg...
...felt no more than minor inconvenience, and teachers actually found new hope for teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch" calls...
Although only eight Harvard and five Radcliffe undergraduates are presently majoring in Astronomy, the facilities of the department and the calibre of the instruction are enormous, leading the country along with the Universities of Chicago, California, and Michigan...