Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Pearl Harbor, vanished into the reaches of the Pacific. Through Hawaii flowed the other, inevitable, steady stream of war-commercial airliners out of the Far East carrying hundreds of civilian evacuees. Two airborne arrivals flew directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds breached the 24th Division's line along the Kum River (see WAR IN ASIA), Collins...
Died. Hazel Whitaker Vandenberg 67 second wife of Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (his first wife, mother of his three children, died in 1916); after long illness; in Washington...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg. 5. Wallace...
...Graham of North Carolina, who was engaged in a bitter primary fight, managed to be absent. Six Democrats from western and border states voted against cloture. Lucas was able to count only 19 Democrats in his camp. From the other side of the aisle, 33 Republicans, including the ailing Vandenberg, gave Lucas more embarrassment than satisfaction by coming out loud & clear for cloture; only six Republicans turned up on the side of the Dixiecrats...
...Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg: The provision of a reasonably adequate air defense system is not possible under our present program . . . The strength of our Air Force at the present time is not sufficient to continue an all-out air war lasting more than a few months...