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...afford. This week he returned from a State Department economic mission to the Far East. He was mentioned as a possible administrator of the Marshall Plan almost as soon as Congress began discussing the program. His chief sponsor was George Marshall; he also had the approval of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. In his testimony before Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee, Hoffman outlined his conception of the nation's task in Europe: "If production can be increased by one-third quickly, Western Europe will be on the way to prosperity. ... A half-hearted program is likelv to be worse than...
Undergraduates will vote on a field including Dewey, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Stassen, Taft, Truman, Vandenberg, and Wallace, individualists being offered a chance to write in their own choice...
...responsible for the blunder, Vandenberg refused to say. He insisted that "there was nothing at all sinister about it." But there could be no question that it was Vandenberg's laxity which let it slip into print...
...already complicated College political scene received two new facets of expression during vacation when Frederick D. Houghteling '50 and Stephen M. Schwebel '50 recently formed groups in support of Eisenhower and Vandenberg, respectively...
...latter campaign for in infancy, however, when Vandenberg telegraphed a negative reply to Schwebel's request to form a National Student league in support of the Michigan Senator's nomination. "I must emphatically request you not to proceed with the organization contemplated," his message road in part, "I am very sure I can best serve my country by completing my present tour of duty in the Senate...