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...urged Congress indirectly, through a letter to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, to empower him to repeal individual items in bills (a death blow to pork-barrel legislation). He went ahead with plans for manpower mobilization-under which the 26,500,000 men registered in the draft will be classified for work in war industries, if they cannot fight...
Sales Tax? Pressure is bound to grow for a general sales tax; even President Roosevelt, long its foe, said: "We may later be compelled to reconsider the temporary necessity of such measures." A sales tax is "painless," can be fabulously productive. But Senator Vandenberg is not the only man who thinks it would also set off a new spiral of wage demands, price increases, inflation...
...subject was appetizing and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg made the most of it. Did his fellow Senators know, he inquired, that the U.S. Army was going to ask for bids on 1,000 rubber cuspidor mats-which would use up a ton and a half of badly needed rubber? Well, sir, he'd learned precisely that from one of his constituents. His adviser had proposed that "a little drilling of the officers in straight spitting might be a good suggestion...
Last week Michigan's isolationist Senator Vandenberg spilt the news of Franklin Roosevelt's secret treaty. By threatening to stir up opposition in tax-hungry States and cities, Senator Vandenberg forced the hand of long Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From Chairman Connally: a promise that terms of the tax treaty will be made public...
...bill finally passed the House with 100 Republicans (out of 151 who voted) and 19 Democrats voting against it, the scene shifted to the Senate. There too the convoy argument trailed it. Michigan's Vandenberg produced a letter from Maritime Commission Chairman Emory Land which reported that only eight out of 205 ships clearing from U.S. ports for the United Kingdom between Dec. 30 and March 31 had been sunk. Non-interventionists triumphantly pointed to the figures as proof that ship sinkings were much less alarming than the British and the Administration had painted...