Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
...Last Stretch. Oregon was the last popular test before the convention. Now that the dust had cleared, it was possible to see the frontrunners. They had narrowed down to three: Dewey, Taft and Arthur Vandenberg-who, although still an unannounced candidate, was the popular choice in the event of a deadlock. Taft was up there mostly on his nerve. He was in a position to do some jockeying and bargaining. On the first ballot, Dewey would clearly be in the lead...
...could move ahead after the favorite-son votes were cast and the delegates got down to business. If he began to move fast, then he was probably on his way to the White House. If he stopped in his tracks, then the moment would be ripe for Arthur Vandenberg...
...Seattle: "The policies of Truman, Vandenberg, Marshall and Forrestal have stained the world with blood and have laid the foundation for the greatest bloodshed the world has ever seen . . . We must have ... an under standing [with Russia...
...speedy action on Arthur Vandenberg's resolution for U.S. association in regional mutual-defense arrangements, such as Europe's Western Union (TIME...