Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strident step forward was repeal of the tax on oleomargarine (TIME, May 10). By a vote of 47 to 30, the Senate overruled Arthur Vandenberg's decision to send the House repeal bill to the anti-oleo Agriculture and Forestry Committee, routed it instead to the pro-oleo Finance Committee. The vote virtually assured repeal in the Senate and the end of the butter lobby's 62-year reign...
...Nearly half of the delegates were either 1) undecided, 2) pledged to favorite sons, or 3) silent. Those who were committed or unofficially pledged made the first ballot score read: Dewey, 202; Stassen, 143; Taft, 108. Those who were open to persuasion were talking more & more about Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...start talking about the men he had in mind for his Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior, he promised, would certainly be a westerner. For Secretary of State, he announced, he had two men in mind: his longtime adviser John Foster Dulles and his unannounced presidential rival, Arthur Vandenberg...
...avowed candidate for the Presidential nominations of either Party received a favorable majority in the survey, but Stassen led the list of possible White House residents with 24 percent supporting him. Vandenberg and Eisenhower followed closely, with Henry Wallace boosted by 6.5 percent and President Truman backed by 4.4 percent...
...Winchester, Va., General Hoyt S. Vandenberg found time in a busy week to crown Skater Gretchen Merrill as Queen Shenandoah XXI of the annual Apple Blossom Festival. Her scepter looked like a rather graceful table...