Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg. Last week, in a nation reconsidering Isolationism, Isolationist Arthur Vandenberg, to his infinite private relief, was politically nowhere. Michigan's senior Senator has long regarded the Presidency as a "crucifixion," and last week there appeared to be no national desire thus to crucify the big Michigander...
...salient feature: all were emphatically against U. S. involvement in World War II). No surprise was Franklin Roosevelt's nomination by the Democrats by a whopping majority of no votes. Runner-up: Robert Jackson, 31. For Vice President: Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. The Republicans chose Senator Arthur Vandenberg for President over Dewey (85-to-46). The "Liberal-Independents": Fiorello LaGuardia...
Meanwhile, delegates learned that in a Gallupesque nationwide poll of college students taken for them by Student Opinion Surveys the standings were: Roosevelt, 34%; Dewey, 27%; Hull, 7%; Vandenberg, 6%; Taft...
Nebraska. Clear also was the G.O.P. swing in Nebraska: in the Democratic primary Roosevelt (unopposed) got 109,386 votes with some rural returns still untabulated. Republican: Dewey, 99,905; Vandenberg. 72,108. Four years ago the President carried Nebraska by 100,000 majority...
...speech), without the help of one major G. O. P. figurehead, he entered every primary in sight, met every challenge head on. Last week he pulverized professionals, reduced experts to tears. Expected at best to break even, he swept the Wisconsin primary, using Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg as the broom. In the State where Vandenberg is best known, outside Michigan, Mr. Dewey suddenly became better known. On Wisconsin farms he ran like a prairie fire; in Wisconsin cities he ran like a rumor. Of a possible 24 delegates, he got 24. Mr. Vandenberg's candidacy was dead...