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...Dewey speech was a belated swing toward the course which Senator Vandenberg has long been steering in Congress (see The Congress). But it represented a clean break with the conservatives in the G.O.P...
...plans for European recovery last week. The first came from a group of Maryland cub scouts, who called to tell him about their own "Junior Marshall Plan" for raising funds to help Europe's children. The other came from Michigan's big, grey Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...
Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, visiting Detroit, caught the fever. He announced that Vandenberg was growing daily as a dark horse, even predicted that Vandenberg would lead popular polls "in a few weeks." He added flatly: "Vandenberg...
...Senator Vandenberg himself had nothing to say. It was impossible, however, not to attach a certain significance to his silence. Eleven months ago he had issued a pointed, eloquent statement that he would not "connive" to get the presidency. But as Sigler & Co. began trumpeting last week, he uttered no word of rebuke...