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...strident step forward was repeal of the tax on oleomargarine (TIME, May 10). By a vote of 47 to 30, the Senate overruled Arthur Vandenberg's decision to send the House repeal bill to the anti-oleo Agriculture and Forestry Committee, routed it instead to the pro-oleo Finance Committee. The vote virtually assured repeal in the Senate and the end of the butter lobby's 62-year reign...
...avowed candidate for the Presidential nominations of either Party received a favorable majority in the survey, but Stassen led the list of possible White House residents with 24 percent supporting him. Vandenberg and Eisenhower followed closely, with Henry Wallace boosted by 6.5 percent and President Truman backed by 4.4 percent...
Observers knew that Jim Duff was heart & soul for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, hesitated to speak only because he had no assurance that Vandenberg was a serious candidate. Vandenberg had run sixth in the state's primary. Said Jim Duff: "I feel certain that if [people] had known he was available his vote would have been much larger...
...time Sigler had finished, the legislature was seething with charges and countercharges. Rising up with accusing finger, State Senator William Vandenberg* shouted at his colleagues: "You are the men who killed the governor's program because of your vindictiveness." Snapped one of the accused: "I don't want him, you can have him, he's two-faced...
...Winchester, Va., General Hoyt S. Vandenberg found time in a busy week to crown Skater Gretchen Merrill as Queen Shenandoah XXI of the annual Apple Blossom Festival. Her scepter looked like a rather graceful table...