Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply are for Russia!" roared Texas' Tom Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry...
...Presented the annual $10,000 Collier's magazine awards for "distinguished congressional service" to Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. (Rayburn gave his prize money to his home town of Bonham, Tex. for a library; Vandenberg gave his to the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Mich, as a memorial to his mother...
...work as consultant to the airforce, W. Ratton Leach. Professor at the Law School was awarded the exceptional civilian service award Saturday. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, presented the medal in person...
...Little Too Far." In their effort to line up a two-thirds majority for the treaty, Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued...
...attack on Russia, and to tell Western Europeans that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could win a war without the naval ships and planes to keep command of the seas and an army to finish...