Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herald Tribune was pointing at Senator Taft. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, Taft's right-hand man, had indicated that he would support Lilienthal. Co-Leader Arthur Vandenberg gave Lilienthal lukewarm support; he did not want to jeopardize Republican unity. Upon Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent...
...major problem of U.S.diplomacy is Russia's defensive silence, equivocation and niggling delay. Last week Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Arthur Vandenberg discussed a prime example: Russia's refusal even to answer U.S. notes suggesting a Lend-Lease settlement...
...Senator Vandenberg warned: "Such experiences are not calculated to fertilize mutual good will and understanding. . . .. Washington is not an inconsequential way station on an unimportant R.F.D...
Other contenders were gaining on the leaders. In a poll of G.O.P. Senators. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was out ahead of both Dewey and Taft. John Bricker was still holding his own as the darling of the Old Guard; Earl Warren was still the fair-haired boy in the West. A new favorite son was moving up: Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall...
...Happy Sturgeon. When President and Mrs. Harry Truman honored Senator Arthur Vandenberg with a White House dinner, a casual spectator would never have noticed that Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor was numbered among the 90 guests. Shor, who looks like Gargantua* as a baby and who loves to greet his own clientele as "crum bums," was burstingly immaculate in white tie & tails, and acted as though he knew as much about the partitioning of Germany as Jimmy Byrnes...