Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kill him. Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has been named by the Harvard Young Republican Club as the "Republican Who Rendered the Greatest Service to the Nation...
...Vandenberg was cited for "his selfless devotion to the cause of a just peace, his leadership in the bi-partisan foreign policy, and his historic contribution to the political and military unity of the Atlantic Community...
...Vandenberg's selection is the second time that a Harvard group has singled him out for party honors. In May of last year he was given the GOP presidential "nomination" at a mock Republican convention...
...Republicans' Arthur Vandenberg agreed. "I have never felt," he said, "that extending ambassadorial recognition was in any sense an approval by the United States of the governments of the countries to which it was extended. If that were the case, there are about a half-dozen embassies I would like to see closed...