Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Response. All through Taft's speech Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had sat slouched in his chair, doodling with a pencil. Now he sprang to his feet, the color rising in his face. "I should think," he said, "[that] the Senator from Ohio would join me among the very first. ... If he found that those with whom we were cooperating were doing what we had contemplated and hoped for ... he would be the first to say it was a golden opportunity to continue this program...
...Days. As Taft sat down, Vandenberg sensed that the time was ripe for a showdown. By a vote of 56 to 31, the Senate rejected Taft's amendment to reduce...
...first-year appropriation to $4 billion. Then, at five minutes past the next midnight, 31 Republicans joined 38 Democrats to approve the Economic Cooperation Act, 69 to 17, in just about the form in which Vandenberg had originally proposed it (TIME, March 1). Bob Taft, who had a train to catch, did not even stay for the final vote-he was paired...
...Europe would pass-and probably soon enough to undercut at least some Communist propaganda in the Italian elections next month. The House, which was still planning to combine ERP with all other foreign aid projects in one omnibus bill, was heading for an April 1 passage. That gave Arthur Vandenberg 18 days to iron out the last differences in conference...
McConnell promptly filed Vandenberg's name, along with those of Dewey, Taft, Stassen, MacArthur, Warren and Speaker Joe Martin. "I suppose this makes you mad as the devil," said a reporter. "Period," said Vandenberg, grinning broadly...