Word: tem
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There, Republicans were divided and moved more cautiously. Senators Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg swung their weight behind Finance Chairman Eugene Milliken's proposal for a $4.5 billion cut. Their most potent argument: the effect of a larger cut on U.S. military strength (see The Nation). President pro tem Vandenberg took the floor to warn his colleagues: "Any lapse in our purpose or resources . . . will be an open invitation to Soviet Russia to fill the vacuum. . . . We dare not present to the world a picture of Uncle Sam with a chip on each shoulder and both arms...
From the ranks of Taft's own Republican Party two strong voices spoke. One was that of Senate President "pro tem Arthur Vandenberg. "Being on the jury," he refused to state his own position, but he implied it clearly. It was Vandenberg who read into the record the Compton warning. When Senator McKellar insisted that Communism in the TVA was a responsibility of Lilienthal's, Vandenberg replied acidly: "Former Senator La Follette wrote an article in which he said there were Communists working for the Senate. I did not see any Senators assuming responsibility...
...intimate affair; just the Senate president pro tem, Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...religion the Onas were Theists, believing in a supreme god, Temáukel, who lived "beyond the stars." He was rather indifferent to worldly affairs; they did not bother much about him either...
...Charlie Halleck and Ohio's Clarence Brown for House majority leader will be fought out spiritedly; other candidates may complicate the race. But there was no sign of any deep developing rifts among the triumphant G.O.P. leaders. Vandenberg will preside over the Senate as president pro tem. Elderly (69) Wallace White, ineffectual minority leader during G.O.P. underdog days, will become majority leader by courtesy. The G.O.P. spark plug will be sparkless, plugging Bob Taft, serving as boss of the steering committee. Nebraska's Ken Wherry will be party whip...