Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt's Happy Days Are Here Again rocked Philadelphia's vast, egg-shaped Convention Hall. Slogans were as uninspiring as the candidates they sought to tout-slogans like "Trust-in-Taft," "A Top Scholar-Taft," "Do It With Dewey," "Gannett-America's Best Bet," and Vandenberg's labels on yellow fans, which came in handy in the hot Convention Hall-"Fan with...
During the last campaign Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg created a stir on the air waves by playing recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncements, rebutting them sharply as they scratched along. Squelched during this campaign will be little playlet parables against the New Deal. No more will Romeo tell Juliet that he cannot marry her because the WPA has bounced him for being a Republican. Agreeing that such tricks are unfair and unseemly, the National Association of Broadcasters last week voted to restrict political broadcasts to speeches, interviews, bona fide rallies...
...month later, there were about 200 Willkie-for-President Clubs scattered throughout the country. Great was the enthusiasm among these political innocents when a Gallup poll showed that a staggering three per cent of U. S. voters favored Willkie above all other Republicans (Dewey -67%; Vandenberg -14%; Taft -12%). By last week their enthusiasm had broken all bounds: upwards of 750 Willkie Clubs had been organized, new ones were forming at the rate of 20, 30, 40 a day; a Gallup poll now put Willkie second in popular choice, ahead of Taft and Vandenberg, and still growing; at least...
...About like this: Arthur James, 72; Arthur Vandenberg, 67; Herbert Hoover, 44; Hanford MacNider, 33; Wendell Willkie, 26; Frank Gannett, 24; Styles Bridges, 24; Joe Martin, 20; Arthur Capper, 18; Raymond Baldwin, 16; Charles McNary, 10; Hamilton Fish, 2; unknown...
WASHINGTON--Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., proclaiming that the United States has traded neutrality for non-belligerency, tonight abandoned his isolationist attitude and favored American aid to the embattled Allies provided it does not plunge this nation into the European...