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...Senator Vandenberg did not question the right of appropriations committees to weigh and to cut individual figures. But he scathingly denounced the House's "meat-ax technique" in arbitrarily stretching appropriations over 15 instead of twelve months...
...Pennsylvania's Governor James Henderson Duff, a strapping, affable redhead, who believes with an evangelist's zeal that the future of the party lies with a progressive candidate. The man who best fitted that description, by Jim Duff's analysis, was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...foreign policy its record was distinguished: its decisions marked the end of 152 years of U.S. peacetime isolation. Though the Administration, using its constitutional prerogative, initiated policy, the Both Congress, led by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, forged the imposing tools by which the bipartisan foreign policy was put into effect...
...Approved and sent to conference the Vandenberg-Millikin compromise on reciprocal trade, which removed the House-approved congressional veto on tariff agreements. ¶ Tabled oleo tax repeal...
...West Point, to Hoyt Jr., a rock-jawed plebe, went a fountain pen and a rock-solid handshake from Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, '23, who has come a long way since then but still looks a little like a plebe with his hair slicked down...