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...Biddle. In the Senate, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg scored a personal triumph. For five months he had bottled up in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee Harry Truman's nomination of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle as U.S. representative on the U.N.'s Social and Economic Council. Biddle finally requested that his name be withdrawn. The President's prompt second choice: Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who had Vandenberg's warm backing...
...Proposal. In a final maneuver to harass Republicans, Georgia's Russell slyly proposed that the president pro tempore of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg, be placed in front of Speaker Martin...
...Arthur Vandenberg himself quickly scotched the suggestion. "Presidential succession," he said, "should first reside in the officer reflecting the largest measure of popular and representative expression at the moment of his succession." That ended that. The succession bill was passed and sent on to the House...
...country at so little cost should not now be lost." The new bill, as Marshall pointed out, set Army expenditure at only $10,000,000 a year "for a period of years." But Congress was still unimpressed. Senator Taft had already gone on record against the bill. Senator Vandenberg would concede no more than "an open mind." Even House leaders thought the bill unsound, figured that this was no time to ship away U.S. guns and powder, that to do so might touch off a string of Latin American revolutions anyway...
...results were announced this week, Stassenmen wished they had worked harder on the 1,159 delegates, and Dewey-men laughingly wondered why they had been worried. The poll showed these top choice results: Dewey 321; Stassen 286; Douglas MacArthur 157; Robert A. Taft 97; John Bricker 77; Arthur Vandenberg 59. Eighth choice of Wisconsin Republicans: Wisconsin's ex-Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr.-seven votes...