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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slash. This week, Senator Arthur Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee sat down to write the bill it will present to the Senate. One thing was sure: ERP would not be administered by the State Department. Confided one Senator: "The people in State have no business competence and a great talent for bitching things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Faint Umbilical Cord | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fever in Michigan | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, visiting Detroit, caught the fever. He announced that Vandenberg was growing daily as a dark horse, even predicted that Vandenberg would lead popular polls "in a few weeks." He added flatly: "Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fever in Michigan | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...every stop, husky, hustling Harold Stassen proclaimed his divergence from Bob Taft and from "those in my party who do not like to think in terms of world responsibility." He was loud in his praise for Arthur Vandenberg, "a great American statesman, in recent years." Said Stassen: "I find I am more in accord with Vandenberg on both foreign and domestic issues than I am with any other Republican leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hustling Harold | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

With Eisenhower out of the way, the long-talked-about Taft-Dewey deadlock became a real possibility. Thus the chances of the dark horses grew brighter every moment. Last week there was a sudden new interest in Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, who had tried to take himself out of the race but who had steadily been building up prestige for himself and his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Back to Normal | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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