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...astonishment over the abrogation of the 1911 treaty (TIME, Feb. 5), Columnist Walter Lippmann took a good look at U. S. Far East policy. What he saw he viewed with alarm. A good part of the responsibility for what he saw he placed squarely on one man: Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...suggestion to the Democrats for 1940-why not Hull for President and F. D. R. for Vice President? This would avoid (not evade) the third-term difficulty, yet give the ticket the Roosevelt magic. It would also be interesting to see Mr. Roosevelt presiding over Taft, Vandenberg, Glass, etc. This plan would also release abstaining Mr. Garner for some sort of Boys' Work...
...eyebrows black as ever, his stomach for a scrap still keen, though he often repeated: "My work is done." In the Senate sat six men each of whom hopes that, this time next year, he may be President-Garner of Texas, Wheeler of Montana, Taft of Ohio, Vandenberg of Michigan, Bridges of New Hampshire, Clark of Missouri. In the House at least two men had such hopes; Bankhead of Alabama, Martin of Massachusetts...
...came only the muffled tick of the ancient grandfather clock that has been in the Department of State offices since 1777. But the tick may well have seemed like the tick of a timebomb. He had just received a blunt warning-a demand by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg that Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements be investigated by the Senate...
Married. Barbara Vandenberg Knight, dark, buxom daughter of G. O. P. Senator Arthur Vandenberg and his first (late) wife; and John W. Bailey Jr., son of the late mayor of Battle Creek, Mich., whom Arthur Vanctenberg whopped almost three to one in the 1928 Michigan Senatorial election; in Washington, D. C. Married in 1931, Barbara divorced Husband John Knight in 1935, and again, after remarriage...