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...Dewey, returned to New York's governor's chair with the biggest majority any New York gubernatorial candidate had ever rolled up (680,000).-As before, there were others breathing down his neck: Ohio's Bricker and Taft, California's Warren, Michigan's Vandenberg, Minnesota's Stassen, Massachusetts' Lodge. As for the Democrats-now Harry Truman's troubles would be the same as those which confronted Hoover after...
...ponder some of that history. The position he found himself in was not without historical parallel, but it had an unusual aspect. Harry Truman, his party rejected, would have trouble functioning effectively as President. Many of the Executive functions, for all practical purposes, must be taken over by Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft in the Senate; Joe Martin in the nation's most representative body, the House...
...would not be strong enough to override him. But Mr. Truman said he would not follow such tactics. If the Republicans would work with him he would work with them. The major conflicts might well come within the Republican Party. In any case, the Republican legislators, led by Martin, Vandenberg and Taft, will have the task of guiding the nation for the next two years, at least...
Harding & Hootchy-Kootchy. Austin's teammates in the U.S. delegation: ¶| Thomas Terry Connally, 69, Democratic Senator from Texas and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has a much sharper mind than his flowing white mane, flowing string tie and flowing oratory indicate. ¶ Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. 62, Republican Senator from Michigan, a harness maker's son, who got into politics via journalism by helping Isolationist Warren Harding write campaign speeches, and who has become (with Secretary Byrnes) the architect of practical postwar U.S. internationalism...
...Vandenberg's remarks were made as speculation mounted over Russia's Pacific island policy after an unexplained Soviet postponement of a speech generally expected to answer the United States' take-it-or-leave-it offer of limited U. N. trusteeship over the Japanese mandated islands...