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Word: vandenbergers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll, taken among Republicans before General MacArthur's announcement, showed these preferences, in percentages: Dewey, 37; Stassen, 15; Taft, 14; Vandenberg, 13; MacArthur, 12; Warren, 6; Martin, 1; Saltonstall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Rise | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Focus of Confidence. It is a time for greatness, but greatness is unpredictable in any President. More exactly, it is a time for statesmanship in the White House and Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Rise | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Douglas MacArthur, Torn Dewey and Harold Stassen got most of the play in the political headlines and over the radios last week, but the man who was showing the biggest gains in the Republican presidential sweepstakes was Arthur Vandenberg. This week the Gallup poll clocked the race, confirmed what many a GOProfessional had already guessed: in the six weeks since Ike Eisenhower dropped out, the Michigan Senator's popularity had more than doubled; the declared candidates had neither gained nor lost much ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Rise | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Bandwagon Zip. Many GOPoliticians were privately talking Vandenberg up as the strongest man to whom the party could entrust its interests and the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Rise | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...develop more zip than he had shown in New Hampshire. In Wisconsin (April 6), Stassen will be on friendlier ground, and General MacArthur will have the benefit of some advance spadework in his home state. In Nebraska (April 13), almost every avowed and unavowed candidate's name (including Vandenberg's) is on the free-for-all ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Rise | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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