Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Nathan Farragut ("Nate") Twining, 55, now the No. 2 man in the Air Force under Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg. A second possibility: General Ben Chidlaw. 52. head of the Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs...
...Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United Nations as a member of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee during the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, he teamed with Senator Arthur Vandenberg to guide the Marshall Plan and other key foreign-aid programs through Congress...
...only a few years ago, in fact, that the Republicans made Rule 22 even more vicious. When the late Arthur Vandenberg was president pro tem of the Senate, an occasion arose when it seemed possible that cloture could be invoked, according to the then prevalent interpretation that two-thirds of the Senators could invoke it. Vandenberg, who was enjoying quite a reputation as a liberal in those post-war days, decided that the rule required the votes of two-thirds of the whole Senate...
...Alben Barkley's first acts as vice-president was to reverse Vandenberg's ruling. The Michigan Republican marshalled the Republicans into coalition with the Southerners, and got the 64-vote rule reinstated...
...important Americans made important contributions to their fellow citizens' understanding of the world. The late Senator Arthur Vandenberg's Private Papers described the growth of a good mind from narrow isolationism to a sharp sense of world responsibility. In Journey to the Far Pacific, Governor Tom Dewey brought back a comprehensive and surprisingly readable account of Asia's problems...