Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British embassy managed a stag dinner for Ernie Bevin with Secretary Acheson and Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg. Acheson also dined at the French embassy, but other hosts had to be content with lesser functionaries such as Under Secretary Webb (the Italian embassy) and Counselor "Chip" Bohlen (The Netherlands). The Scandinavians entertained each other...
...seventh day of debate the Senate had taken on all the rash-marks of a baby filibuster. But this time the opposition could not muster the votes. At week's end 23 Republicans lined up behind Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg to help 45 Democrats defeat a milder version of the Wherry amendment...
...Senators who voted down Vice-President Barkley's anti-filibuster ruling on Friday, exactly half were Republicans. Most of the GOP bloc was from the conservative Mid-West, led by Arthur Vandenberg. The issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome...
...difficult to disagree with anyone who claims that the means do not justify the end. But Senator Vandenberg has clouded the argument by his appeal for cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster; the fact that later on the Dixiecrats joyfully discovered a loephole is unfortunate, yet Barkley's effort to plug that loophole seems in no way a breach of ethics...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...