Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's little that is revolutionary in the YCL circular. In fact, even such a conservative as Mr. Vandenberg could probably read most of it without a change of pulse. Anyone can watch the stock market reports, and recent activities in some key industries such as steel and machine tools, and comparing these indices with the war news, conclude that American business is flirting with war profits. It doesn't take a clairvoyant, or a Marxist, to see that last September's Neutrality Act fitted in beautifully with the desires of American big business. And a nation taught to recoil...
...authorizing an increase in the Export-Import Bank's loan capital of $100,000,000, and making possible an additional $20,000,000 credit to Finland. The bill was favorably reported by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, had the approval even of such isolationists as Senators Vandenberg and Hiram Johnson, seemed destined to pass. Debatable was the bill's practical or potential value to the Finns. The money would have to be spent in the U. S., and for non-military products. And final sanctioning of the credit would be up to hard-headed Jesse Jones...
...sold it to the San Francisco mint. First gold shipped directly from Russia to the U. S. since 1937, it was a mere twentieth of the $101,900,000 of Russian gold bought by the U. S. (through other countries) in that time. Kim's arrival served Senator Vandenberg with occasion for lambasting the Administration's gold policy ("Folly ... we do not want the gold") on the floor of the Senate. But to newsmen it served to spotlight the surprising trend of U.S.-Soviet trade...
...Senator Vandenberg politely demurred, handed over the entire credit for U. S. Far Eastern policy to the Administration...
Illinois' Bosses Kelly & Nash filed Franklin D. Roosevelt as a candidate in the April 9 primary. He has until Feb. 24 to disavow the filing. Thomas E. Dewey entered Illinois' Republican primary, where a sweeping victory would give any candidate top billing. Bob Taft was undecided. Arthur Vandenberg declined...