Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate usually waits a day after committee action on nominations. But just a few hours later Stettinius was confirmed as Under Secretary of State, without a dissenting vote. Up rose Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley in fulsome eulogy. Immediately Arthur Vandenberg, powerful Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was on his feet to say that the Republicans agreed...
...argued Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg last week in a speech on the Mackinac "achievement." He said...
...office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
Editorialized the St. Louis Post-Dis patch, which backed Franklin Roosevelt in 1940: "Messrs. Dewey, Bricker, Taft, Vandenberg and other Republican hopefuls have been silent, ambiguous or restrained. . . . Yet no Missouri questionnaire goes out. . . . Is Willkie running so far ahead of the field for the 1944 nomination that Missouri Republican leaders . . . feel he must be killed off politically before that time...
...Bulletin Board. But by the second day the Governors had wrenched control away from the Old Guard. Arthur Vandenberg had taken such punishment that he vowed to a friend he would never again head a committee to write GOPolicy. Senator Taft threw in the sponge, told the Governors to write the domestic platform themselves. This was precisely what the Governors wanted. They split up in subcommittees, recast the heart of the platform. Iowa's Hickenlooper led a group which rewrote the veterans' plank; Nebraska's Griswold put teeth into the farm program; California's Warren...