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...Senator Vandenberg. who killed the original canal appropriation almost singlehanded, once more leaped to the attack. "We are back again," roared the Michigan GOPossibility, "boondoggling on 'Quoddy Bay and pipe-dreaming on the phantom Florida Canal. Most of us thought, or perhaps hoped would be a better word, that we were through with this quarter-billion-dollar extravaganza when Congress settled with it the last time...
...late Chief Justice. Candidate Borah stumped vigorously in the northern portion of the State, made a loud noise against false-front candidacies. Candidate Taft canvassed the State like a bona fide candidate, although Ohio freely figured that his delegates really stood for Governor Landon, Publisher Knox and Senator Vandenberg...
...ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices-Borah, Vandenberg, Knox...
When Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg began baying on the trail of recipients of big AAA benefit payments. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tossed out a few dry bones of figures-without-names which by no means satisfied the hunger of the Michigan GOPossibility (TIME, April 20). Last week the Senate's Democratic majority decided that it was the better part of politics to let Senator Vandenberg have his resolution directing the Department of Agriculture to furnish names of all those who had received AAA payments of $10,000 or more per year...
...Connally prepared to fight fire with fire by tacking on amendments directing the Tariff Commission to supply names of big industrial corporations which had benefited by the tariff, with estimates of the amounts which that form of Government subsidy had put into their pockets. Also, Democrats pounced on Republican Vandenberg's Presidential aspirations, denounced the political motive of his inquiry...