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...Secretary also tangled with Senator Vandenberg when the Senator attacked his beloved reciprocal trade agreements. Wrote the Secretary grandly: "I have received your letter ... in which you express your concern over possible reduction of the duty on beans...
Outraged Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, self-styled "peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language," wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "The press quotes you as saying Senator Vandenberg is the Senate's greatest mumbler of long words. Why did you do that to me? What have I done to you? You know very well that I am a greater mumbler of long words than Arthur Vandenberg...
Michigan's Vandenberg [Oct. 2, 1939] -Routed decisively in the Great Neutrality issue...
...Russian Pact, that turned into contempt at weird Russian claims of Finnish aggression, flared to new highs, led to loud demands that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Russia. Said Senator King of Utah: "My country will no longer grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Said Senator Vandenberg: "There is no rational alternative except to drive every trace of Communism and Naziism out of the U. S." Said Senator Russell of Georgia, "Of all the terrible incidents of this year, this is the most tragic." Said Nebraska's Norris, "This is the worst thing that has happened...
District Attorney Dewey, Senator Taft, and Senator Vandenberg, likely Republican choices, will be discussed by James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, Thomas M. Cook '42, and Richard B. Wolf '41, respectively, while Thomas J. O'Toole '42, Grenville Clark, Jr. '41, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, are discussing the qualifications of Paul V. McNutt, Secretary of State Hull, and President Roosevelt...