Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference that he had made plans, at least a week before, for intelligence briefings of both Stevenson and Eisenhower, and that both nominees had been so informed. (Three days earlier, presidential Press Secretary Joe Short had denied knowledge of any plans for briefing Ike.) From Denver Eisenhower aide Arthur Vandenberg replied: "Neither the general nor anyone in this office has any memory of such a message, and there is nothing in our files...
...Michigan, Democratic Senator Blair Moody and Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams have tenuous holds on their jobs. Moody was appointed by Williams to fill the seat vacated by the death of the late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams...
Eisenhower's Working Staff: includes Arthur Vandenberg, executive assistant; James Hagerty, press secretary; Abbott Washburn, correspondence secretary...
Chairman Summerfield, 53, is a wealthy Flint, Mich. Chevrolet dealer, who entered politics in the early '40s. In 1948 Summerfield led a movement to get the Republican nomination for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. This year Summerfield kept his important Michigan delegation on the fence right up to convention time, finally went (35-11) for Ike on the first ballot...
...first time since a sudden and serious operation put him on the sick list last spring, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg visited his Pentagon office last week. If all goes well, he expects to be back on full-time duty next month or early in September...