Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Vandenberg's patient prodding, the Senate approved overwhelmingly, 64 to 4. The resolution was not binding on the President or on the country. Another Congress was free to amend, or even to reverse it. But for the first time in U.S. history, the U.S. Senate had approved, in principle, a peacetime military agreement with democratic nations on the continent of Europe...
...Indirection. Earlier in the week, Vandenberg had rushed to the rescue of ECA itself. Appearing at his own request before the Senate Appropriations Committee, he sharply and eloquently denounced the House's $2 billion slash in funds for European recovery (TIME, June...
...said Vandenberg, would brand U.S. policies as "capricious, unreliable and impotent." Its effect would be "to repeal by indirection" the whole intent of ECA. Said Vandenberg...
...Senator Vandenberg did not question the right of appropriations committees to weigh and to cut individual figures. But he scathingly denounced the House's "meat-ax technique" in arbitrarily stretching appropriations over 15 instead of twelve months...
...Pennsylvania's Governor James Henderson Duff, a strapping, affable redhead, who believes with an evangelist's zeal that the future of the party lies with a progressive candidate. The man who best fitted that description, by Jim Duff's analysis, was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...