Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opened Door. Next day, a conference of five Senators and five Representatives sat down to work out a compromise acceptable to both houses. After ten hours of wrangling, Conference Chairman Arthur Vandenberg reported that an agreement had been reached...
...leading GOPoliticos had decided to give a little dinner for Governor James H. Duff at Washington's swank 1925 F Street Club. Senator Ed Martin, who is the real Republican leader of Pennsylvania, turned up with a select group of capital headliners, including Senators Taft and Vandenberg and General Dwight Eisenhower. Aged Joe Grundy arrived from Pennsylvania with a train of lesser politicians and their wives. After a sumptuous dinner, the ladies retired and the gentlemen fired up their cigars. Then somebody suddenly dispelled the air of pleasant sociability...
...noticeable chill settled over the room. Eisenhower looked at Taft. Taft looked at Eisenhower. Arthur Vandenberg looked at both. Then Ike answered that he had some specific ideas in mind, but there was not time to go into them. On that note the party broke...
...petition, directed to Cambridge congressman John F. Kennedy '40 and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, asks both to vote in favor of instructing the United States' UN delegation to request either immediate amendment of the United Nations Charter or its complete revision by a world convention...
Explosive Bob. After hours of boiling argument, the showdown came. Vandenberg prevailed; the amendment was defeated by a vote of 56 to 30. But the Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...