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...finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that he wanted a haircut, shave, bath, sleep. As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room. "Ah," said a reporter, "the day shift is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Night Shift | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg talked and there was no mistaking their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Great Endeavor | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Their exact words are not known, but it is known that the Washington machine tried to explain Mr. Truman's actions. The Paris machine asked some pointed questions, and said at length that the U.S. delegation (Byrnes, Vandenberg and Tom Connally) would have to quit Paris and return to Washington unless the President's foreign policy were clarified. The Washington machine thanked the Paris machine for a "cooperative" attitude. Did the Paris machine demand Wallace's head? Not at all. In the silence of the White House and the Paris Embassy the machines signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Great Endeavor | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...James F. Byrnes broke two bottles and received a $349.90 gold brooch and a $1,820.12 tray. Mrs. Claude Pepper's record of six christenings was second only to the eight splashed up by California's first lady, Mrs. Earl Warren. Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg and the wife of economy-minded Comptroller General Lindsay Warren all took remunerative whacks. A $1,000 watch was presented to Mrs. Brehon B. Somervell, wife of the wartime Chief of the Army Service Forces, $31 in silverware was the best Millionheiress Doris Duke could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Baubles | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...managed to eliminate most of the criticism against him." Eisenhower: "I have a great interest in him." MacArthur: "Too old to be President." Warren: "Too far west-the East can't see past Ohio." Bricker: "Out because he was on a losing ticket in 1944." Stassen and Vandenberg: "They're Truman's candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Bertie's Day | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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