Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey speech was a belated swing toward the course which Senator Vandenberg has long been steering in Congress (see The Congress). But it represented a clean break with the conservatives in the G.O.P...
...plans for European recovery last week. The first came from a group of Maryland cub scouts, who called to tell him about their own "Junior Marshall Plan" for raising funds to help Europe's children. The other came from Michigan's big, grey Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
Sprawled comfortably in his high-backed committee chair, Chairman Vandenberg was obviously feeling pleased with his contribution. After more than a month of hearings and five days of closed-door conferences, his Foreign Relations Committee had approved, by unanimous vote, the first draft of the European Recovery Program. The job had been done without a major fight...
...Timetable. The news was good enough to impress even hardboiled Capitol newsmen. Vandenberg's logic and persuasion, plus the force of public opinion,* had brought ERP to the point of Senate debate unbruised by its first big test. Chairman Vandenberg deserved the congratulations which the newsmen showered down...
...Senator Vandenberg himself had nothing to say. It was impossible, however, not to attach a certain significance to his silence. Eleven months ago he had issued a pointed, eloquent statement that he would not "connive" to get the presidency. But as Sigler & Co. began trumpeting last week, he uttered no word of rebuke...