Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman's 1948 stock has taken a strong upsurge, the FORTUNE Survey reported last week. In March, the FORTUNE poll showed that any one of four Republican candidates-Dewey, Stassen, Vandenberg or Taft-would have beaten the President if an election had been held then. After President Truman's vetoes of the tax and labor bills, FORTUNE measured the same candidates' popularity against his. Results: Tom Dewey is now the only G.O.P. hopeful running ahead of Harry Truman. But Dewey is only two percentage points in front; his rating slipped from 50% to 45%, while Truman...
...yellow-&-green Suite 200 at the Quitandinha. Ambassadors William Dawson and Walter Donnelly were acquainted with every Latin American problem, and Donnelly seemed to know every Latin delegate. Bill Pawley was sharp on Brazilian angles. Shrewd Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador in B.A., understood the Argentine way of thinking. Arthur Vandenberg's practiced eye never wandered off the high policy line...
...armed alliance against the rest of the world," snorted Senator Vandenberg. "It will not do. It would cease to be a regional arrangement." Within 36 hours, the Argentines were making concessions...
Last week Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug summoned 50 bigwigs to Washington. He called on Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the Army Air Forces' Lieut. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, to tell them of the fix the services were...
Visitor from the South. Famed Host Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's most accomplished diplomat, would not be a delegate -he could never have played second fiddle to his rival, Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes-but he was sure to get in diplomatic licks with small get-togethers for Marshall, Vandenberg and other bigwigs...