Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything seemed shipshape. Michigan's broad-domed Senator Arthur Vandenberg arrived with a foreign-policy resolution in his pocket, a document marvelously vague, in which each word had been planed and sandpapered down to political harmlessness. Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into one typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises...
...Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
Last week Congress readied the stage. In the Senate, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg, once solidly identified with Republican isolationism, joined with Maine's Republican Wallace H. White Jr. to plump for postwar cooperation. Their resolution avoided specific commitments...
...time when statesmanship is so vitally needed, Senator Vandenberg, one of our more prominent Politics Firsters, can do no better than to dream up General Douglas MacArthur for the Republican Presidential nomination (TIME, May 17). A perfect example of Old Guard sappidity...
...Politics Firster Vandenberg quit placing his party ahead of his country. A lot of us citizens will cheerfully vote for a fourth term, thank you, rather than elect a glamorous general who has shown neither taste nor talent for the Presidency...