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...historically-dubious idea that wars are started for profit has long obsessed a group of Senators including Washington's Homer Bone, North Dakota's Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, Missouri's Bennett Clark, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. "To keep democracy alive, and for other purposes," these gentlemen and 46 cosigners last week outdid themselves by sponsoring a war-tax measure written by little, pinch-faced Senator Bone...
Minority Leader McNary shook hands with Freshman Taft when he sat down. Michigan's Vandenberg, doubtless recognizing no forensic threat in this serious son of the 27th President, leaned over grinning amiably from his nearby seat. Afterwards Ohio's Taft said: "It was just like making a speech any place else, except that the acoustics are terrible. I have a pretty good voice but I felt I had to shout to make people hear me." Presently he was chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address, shouted very nicely...
...emergency" powers conferred upon President Roosevelt since 1933 was to defeat a bill continuing the life of Reconstruction Finance Corp. (Author: Herbert Hoover. Chairman: Jesse Jones) from next June 30 to June 30, 1941. After House Republicans had failed to beat the bill, in the Senate Michigan's Vandenberg precipitated hot debate by objecting to an increase of $20,000,000 in the capital of Disaster Loan Corp. (RFC offshoot). At length a clerk informed the sheepish Senate that it had already settled that issue when it passed RFC's life-extension on the unanimous consent list some...
...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
...whose long nose, for a long feud, Hopkins once tried to punch in the Mayflower Hotel lobby. Beating last summer's Purge had made Senator Bailey feel no more kindly toward one of its prime instigators. Chairman Bailey turned him over for questioning to Michigan's beetling Vandenberg, spokesman for the Republicans. Mr. Vandenberg, with an elaborate air of ironic courtesy, asked Mr. Hopkins what business experience had qualified him to fulfill such constitutional duties as, for example, running the Bureau of Fisheries...