Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the silken curtain, indignation changed to indifference. Dr. Gallup's pollsters found that Wallace's following among Democrats had dropped from 24% a year ago to a lowly 9%. Boomed Senator Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not interested in itinerant saboteurs...
...Washington indignation mounted. Arkansas' scholarly Senator Fulbright declared: "His speech sounded just as though it had been written in the Kremlin." And Foreign Relations Chairman Arthur Vandenberg cried: "It is a shocking thing when an American citizen goes abroad to speak against his own government. The important question is not what Mr. Wallace will do in 1948, but what he is doing...
...weight of the G.O.P. leadership-Policy Committee Chairman Robert Taft, Majority Leader Wallace White, Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry-and 23 GOPsters had loyally backed them up. But more significant was the fact that 20 Republicans had broken away to follow the lead of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in voting for confirmation. With 37 of the 44 Democrats voting or paired for approval, the truant Republicans provided the margin of victory. It was a personal triumph for Arthur Vandenberg...
Space was cleared in Congress last week for the fight over labor. The Lilienthal case was settled. Pushed by Arthur Vandenberg, the aid-to-Greece and Turkey measure was ready to be passed this week. Congress could now concentrate on labor...
Said one Turkish editor: "We know that Truman and Vandenberg are battling for us and humanity. . . . But we must achieve democracy in our own way." Said a businessman: "Your dollars won't make us knuckle down any more than Russian threats." An aging Turkish intellectual summed up the situation confronting the U.S.'s new foreign policy: "It is difficult to give gracefully, and even more difficult to receive gracefully...