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...Washington, where most Congressmen were aware of the turmoil, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg stepped up with a plan for industrial peace. He proposed that top spokesmen for labor, management and Government get around a conference table, face their problems in the manner of the United Nations. Asked Vandenberg: "Is it impossible to apply this formula at home in respect to vital industrial relationships?" Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach promptly agreed it was a good idea...
...After his tour as Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then LeMay concentrates on Japan...
Many of the portraits you will see were lent by the newsmakers they depict - for the originals of TIME covers have gone (among many others) to General Hodges and Madame Soong, General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture...
...started. They had no apparent strategy for concerted attack. But the Charter's proponents did. That strategy was: accentuate the negative. What the Charter would not do, rather than what it might hopefully accomplish, was their theme. Carefully and objectively, white-suited Chairman Tom Connally and Senator Arthur Vandenberg explained the Charter would not abridge U.S. sovereignty; it would not put war-won Pacific islands under international trusteeship; it would not impose some postwar schemes of disarmament upon the U.S. without U.S. approval; it would not, by itself, take away from Congress the right to declare...
...really believe in discussion. The Big Four were the boss, they reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...