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...Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Eccles is a smalltown banker from Utah and so ardent a believer in New Deal theories of credit control that he has often been a White House spokesman on them. He wrote last week in reply to a letter from Senator Vandenberg...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Temple). But this year's commencements produced a remarkable political echo. Honorary degrees went to no fewer than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (Union College), Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler (American University, Washington, D. C.) and Wyoming's Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (Columbia). Most outspoken was Columbia, braintrusters' hothouse but still run by G. O. Pundit Nicholas Murray Butler, which declared Senator O'Mahoney had "made...
...Washington last week, friends of lively Elizabeth Vandenberg, 26-year-old daughter of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, were surprised to hear of her marriage to Edward Pfeiffer, Trade Extension Bureau Manager of True Story Magazine. This was the second time in two weeks that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list...
...Vandenberg musicale was by no means the only event that served to turn the political spotlight on Republicans last week. In New York, just back from his first visit to Europe in 19 years, Herbert Hoover, still his party's dean, sounded off. Main points: 100 dignitaries with whom he had conversed had given him the impression that immediate general war is unlikely but the U. S. should nonetheless keep out of entangling alliances, and totalitarianism will get you if you don't watch out.* In Bangor, Me., New Hampshire's Senator Bridges called on the country...
...these violent words week were the final major volley of the bitterest political fight of 1938-against Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the executive department of the Federal Government. After portly Mr. Walsh had completed his tirade, echoed only a shade less vehemently by Senators Tydings, Vandenberg and Borah, the Reorganization Bill came to its two final votes...