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Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was for 22 years editor of the Grand Rapids Herald before the people of Michigan elected him to the U. S. Senate. In politics his nose for news still serves him well. Fore. seeing an inevitable effort to amend...
...national radio audience Michigan's 1940 Republican Presidential hope, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, gave warning that Federal wage-fixing, once initiated, may lead to Federal price-fixing. They "together will lead ... to the centralized, authoritarian State with its tyranny of Government-blessed monopolies." Alabama's Senator Hugo Black, co-author of the bill, jumped to the microphone to defend it: "At least 6,000,000 people are now working more than 40 hours a week . . . 3,000,000 are now getting less than 40? an hour . . . even a 40-hour week would result in the re-employment...
...packing the conference committee and by getting the report delayed until there was small time left for debate, pulled the teeth of the bill as it was passed by the Senate two months ago (TIME, March 15). Prodded by its four peace-at-any-price men-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone -the Senate voted in March to put cash & carry trade in force automatically at the beginning of war abroad. The conference, ostensibly on the insistence of the House managers, arranged to let the President decide if & when the rule should take effect...
...with obliging helpfulness Senator Vandenberg has proposed a plan which can dispel the heavy fog engulfing government finances and the growing hostility of Capitol Hill. If Congress accept the Michigan Senator's plan for an unemployment census, the President would have a sound basis upon which to formulate his demands and a reliable indication of the true success of his program, Mr. Roosevelt would no longer be torn between two factions demanding from one to three billions for relief, and Presidential estimates would cease to be an economically unscientific but politically prudent mean between...
...Senator Vandenberg cried that responsibility for a Federal stand on the Sit-Down extended "straight down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House." Senator Johnson asserted that the President could have stopped the Sit-Down epidemic with six words-"I will not tolerate Sit-Down strikes"-and recalled an old law which empowers the Government to step in when a State is unable to put down public disorder. Senator Borah, the Senate's greatest constitutional lawyer, reminded his fellows that the Government could do nothing until local officials announced themselves thwarted...