Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg's backers, the strategy looked good. They felt that he was in an enviable position. Unlike Stassen, Vandenberg had trampled on no toes, aroused no vindictive anger among other candidates. In fact, Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey have repeatedly gone out of their way to praise him. Few GOPoliticos believed that either Taft or Dewey would give up for the other to break a stalemate; instead, most believed that they would settle on Vandenberg as the man around whom all G.O.P. elements could most readily unite...
...Test Runs. Vandenberg's backstage strategists want the nomination to come as a real draft. They had not turned a campaign wheel and did not intend to; but their man was climbing steadily in public popularity. Last week they counted up the nominations of college and university mock conventions,* found that the Senator was far ahead of the field...
...Gallup poll last week reported that he had jumped to third position (behind Stassen and Dewey) in popularity with G.O.P. voters; only Vandenberg and Stassen had gained in the last month. The poll also showed that the Michigan Senator would give President Harry Truman a worse drubbing now than he would have a month ago. Said a southern Senator: "Against Truman, Vandenberg would carry several states of the deep South. He is the one man who would make voting Republican respectable down there...
...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...
...years -longer than any other member of his party.* Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations. By virtue of his long service, he is chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee and ranking majority member, after Arthur Vandenberg, of the Foreign Relations Committee...