Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through political channels: Williams, who hopes to see his name on the Democratic national ticket in 1956, had decided to seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor. The Williams-blessed candidate for Senator will be former Senator Blair Moody, the newspaper correspondent (Detroit News) who was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Williams in 1951, then lost to Republican Charles Potter...
...Vandenberg way did not include the public martyrdom of a Billy Mitchell or the free-swinging tactics of a "Hap" Arnold. Van ducked involvement in side issues and took long detours around personal feuds. During the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949, with its raucous attack on the 6-36, during the MacArthur hearings of 1951, when the atmosphere was alive with bitterness and emotion, and again last year when the Air Force budget was cut by $5 billion, West Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged...
...time he retired last June, Vandenberg's record showed beyond argument that he was indeed the man for the job. When he became Chief of Staff, the big debate was over a 7 owing Air Force; when he left, the Air Force was moving toward 137 wings. The balance-of-forces theory had fallen into disrepute. The strategic-air concept was firmly established...
...cancer, and it was generally thought that he had made a remarkable recovery. But last summer, while playing golf, he complained of "bursitis" pains; examination at Walter Reed Hospital last October revealed widespread malignancy. After that, he was comatose most of the time, and last week, at 55, Hoyt Vandenberg died...
Died. General Hoyt S. (for Sanford) Vandenberg, 55, Air Force Chief of Staff from 1948 until his retirement last June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...