Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China in the ERP package. In domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican legislation such as the Taft-Hartley act. He has made it clear to Senators Vandenberg and Taft that they must stay on their own side of the Hill, that he is running the House. He stepped boldly into the national limelight recently to intercede in the coal strike...
Because of the large number of tallies for favorite sons on the first ballot, no candidate came near the required 543 votes. Stassen led the field with 209, followed by Vandenberg with 203 and Dewey with...
...what was probably the biggest display of student enthusiasm since the end of the football season, University Republicans made a surprise rally behind Vandenberg on the third ballot to defeat Harold E. Stassen who had come within 20 votes of winning the nomination on the previous roll-call...
Successive delegations nominated Senator Taft, Governor Dewey, Governor Warren, and Senator Vandenberg...
...After Vandenberg's election, Students for Stassen officials said they were not at all discouraged by the convention results...