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Twenty-four hours after Congress met, the peace-lovers were ready. Senators Pittman, Nye and Vandenberg had their say but the wrangle which might well have taken place was postponed in deference to haste. Only major Senate action was to strip the resolution of its eloquent whereases to clauses forbidding shipment of arms to civil-warring Spain, provide a $10,000 fine and five years in prison as maximum penalty for disobedience. It was passed...
...Overton of Louisiana because missing from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared as an off-the-record speaker at a luncheon of the National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight...
...singing lessons only two years ago, never heard an opera until this season. Said Betty Jaynes after reading her notices: ''Now I shall not go to school any more. I shall just sing and sing and sing." Preparing to join the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth Vandenberg, pretty, blonde daughter of Michigan's Republican Senator, gave a piano recital before Manhattan's Beethoven Association...
...time Columbia Broadcasting officials who discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither. Hastily they found a reason for not broadcasting the GOProgram: Columbia has a rule against broadcasting "electrically transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement of cancellation but their reception of the "Mystery Chat" continued. In their frenzy Columbia's executives had decided that it might be less expedient to suppress the broadcast than to run it. Finally Columbia...
...novelty of debating the President's record with the President's record Senator Vandenberg would have got considerable press attention anyway. But when he had the great good fortune to be taken off the air by Columbia, he found he had made the front page up & down the land...