Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders called for cooperation. House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., glad at last to retire from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, asked for a joint Democratic-Republican House and Senate Committee on the conduct of the war. A similar proposal came from Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...
...Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., advocate of Senate legislation to create a joint bi-partisan committee to consult with President Roosevelt on prosecution of the war, said he was "perfectly amazed" by Mass' assertions...
...urged Congress indirectly, through a letter to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, to empower him to repeal individual items in bills (a death blow to pork-barrel legislation). He went ahead with plans for manpower mobilization-under which the 26,500,000 men registered in the draft will be classified for work in war industries, if they cannot fight...
Sales Tax? Pressure is bound to grow for a general sales tax; even President Roosevelt, long its foe, said: "We may later be compelled to reconsider the temporary necessity of such measures." A sales tax is "painless," can be fabulously productive. But Senator Vandenberg is not the only man who thinks it would also set off a new spiral of wage demands, price increases, inflation...
...subject was appetizing and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg made the most of it. Did his fellow Senators know, he inquired, that the U.S. Army was going to ask for bids on 1,000 rubber cuspidor mats-which would use up a ton and a half of badly needed rubber? Well, sir, he'd learned precisely that from one of his constituents. His adviser had proposed that "a little drilling of the officers in straight spitting might be a good suggestion...