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...office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
Editorialized the St. Louis Post-Dis patch, which backed Franklin Roosevelt in 1940: "Messrs. Dewey, Bricker, Taft, Vandenberg and other Republican hopefuls have been silent, ambiguous or restrained. . . . Yet no Missouri questionnaire goes out. . . . Is Willkie running so far ahead of the field for the 1944 nomination that Missouri Republican leaders . . . feel he must be killed off politically before that time...
Everything seemed shipshape. Michigan's broad-domed Senator Arthur Vandenberg arrived with a foreign-policy resolution in his pocket, a document marvelously vague, in which each word had been planed and sandpapered down to political harmlessness. Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into one typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises...
...Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
...Bulletin Board. But by the second day the Governors had wrenched control away from the Old Guard. Arthur Vandenberg had taken such punishment that he vowed to a friend he would never again head a committee to write GOPolicy. Senator Taft threw in the sponge, told the Governors to write the domestic platform themselves. This was precisely what the Governors wanted. They split up in subcommittees, recast the heart of the platform. Iowa's Hickenlooper led a group which rewrote the veterans' plank; Nebraska's Griswold put teeth into the farm program; California's Warren...