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Senator at Home. Now that Senator Vandenberg has become a world figure, the Vandenbergs' social life in Washington has changed radically. They are rarely in their two-room apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel. Even in the reduced social season, invitations have come to them by the tens and twenties, and they have duly made the rounds of the embassies and the teas...
...night, when he is not going out, he and his wife go through nine newspapers (two New York, two Detroit, two Grand Rapids, three Washington), clip out all the stories about Senator Vandenberg, paste them in scrapbooks. When the books are completed, they are bound in green, shipped to Grand Rapids for deposit in a safe in the Vandenberg home. He intends to use them in writing his memoirs...
Getting ready for San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg followed diplomatic custom and bought himself a black Homburg. He flew out in 15 hours in an Army transport with Fellow Delegate Virginia Gildersleeve, Delegation Adviser John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Hamilton Fish Armstrong. His wife went by train. In San Francisco they have a two-room suite at the Fairmont Hotel, from which, over the rooftops of Chinatown, they...
Senator-Statesman. Although Secretary of State Stettinius is head of the U.S. delegation, all eyes at San Francisco will be on the Michigan Senator. (A representative of a small nation, asked last week whom he regarded as the small nations' champion in conference free-for-alls, unhesitatingly replied: Vandenberg...
This natural pre-eminence grows from something more than the fact that Arthur Vandenberg has become a world figure. It is also because he holds the unquestioned balance of power on foreign policy in the Senate. But with his new prestige, and despite the fact that all but four of his 17 Senate years have been spent as a member of the minority, he is neither exultant nor bitter nor disillusioned. He is the "loyal opposition" at its best...