Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason I made that speech," Vandenberg says, "is that I felt that things were drifting. We were in a vacuum...
Franklin Roosevelt liked the speech. He knew it would strengthen his hand at Yalta (he took 50 copies along). At Yalta he also made Arthur Vandenberg a mem ber of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco...
...interval between Yalta and San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg worked long & hard at another project: to liberal ize the provisions of Dumbarton Oaks...
Making of a Man. Arthur Vandenberg was born in 1884 in Grand Rapids, a town famed for its furniture and its Dutch-descended population. His grandfather helped nominate Lincoln in 1860. His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was a harness-maker who was cleaned out in the Cleveland panic of 1893. After that, Father Vandenberg gave his son the stern ad monition: "Always be a Republican." In the government club at Grand Rapids' Central High School, young "Van," who had a flair for oratory, was the "Senator from Michigan." Few doubted even then that he would like to have the title...
...heroes was William Alden Smith, an old-fashioned politico with a sugar-scoop coat and flowing black bow tie, who was soon to become U.S. Senator. In 1907, Smith bought the Herald. The morning after his purchase he walked into the office and found young Arthur Vandenberg sitting in the editor's chair. "I'm here to stay," said Reporter Vandenberg. He stayed - for 21 years...