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Four-fifths of the thousand-odd votes cast favored one of the Republican candidates. Colonel Frank Knox is the fourth in the list of preferences, and the well-known Chicago publisher is closely followed by Arthur Vandenberg, Senator from Michigan...
Meanwhile the Senate Commerce Committee started to consider investigating the whole project. Senator Fletcher was doing his best to preserve the canal's good name while Senator Vandenberg of Michigan was producing considerable damaging evidence against...
...Senator Vandenberg produced letters from numerous shipping companies declaring that, even if the canal is free, they will not use it because the expense and trouble of employing canal pilots, the risk of damage to ships in transit and increased costs of insurance would outweigh the saving in time. To show that Florida's geologist was not alone in his opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that...
...second weeks poll asks one question: "If you would vote Republican today, check the candidate you would like to support: Arthur Vandenberg, William E. Borah, Alfred M. Landon, Herbert C. Hoover, Frank Knox, L. J. Dickinson, or other choice". Answers to this question will be published on Friday, February...
Republican Senator Vandenberg: The brave words of an honest...