Word: vandenberg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Proposal. In a final maneuver to harass Republicans, Georgia's Russell slyly proposed that the president pro tempore of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg, be placed in front of Speaker Martin...
Allen, who laughingly took himself out of the 1948 presidential race, made some prophecies: "Dewey will beat Taft and Vandenberg for the privilege of trying to beat Truman; it won't be easy." To the list of Democratic vice-presidential prospects, "I should add the generally overlooked name of Governor Mon Wallgren of Washington State; indeed I should place his name high on my list." (In Olympia, Wash., Governor Wallgren promptly announced that he would accept...
...results were announced this week, Stassenmen wished they had worked harder on the 1,159 delegates, and Dewey-men laughingly wondered why they had been worried. The poll showed these top choice results: Dewey 321; Stassen 286; Douglas MacArthur 157; Robert A. Taft 97; John Bricker 77; Arthur Vandenberg 59. Eighth choice of Wisconsin Republicans: Wisconsin's ex-Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr.-seven votes...
Little Sympathy. Were Congress and the people in a mood to sanction such vast foreign expenditures? In the Senate. Arthur Vandenberg made a practical suggestion: a bipartisan advisory council of citizens to survey the American economy, determine how much could be drained from it for transfusions to the world's economy without impairing U.S. health. But many a Congressman showed little sympathy for expanding U.S. ventures in internationalism. House-Senate conferees agreed on an import fee on wool which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under...
...will be gone. Sometime next fall, the Veterans Administration's General Omar Bradley will probably take over Ike's job. Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter; the Marines' Major General Graves Erskine will probably take over from General A. A. Vandegrift...