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Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who regards himself as a Republican big gun since his victory in Michigan last autumn, laid down the first major bombardment. As became a man with Presidential aspirations, it was 15.000 words long...
Then Senator Vandenberg asked a casual question: "You know Mr. Flynn of New York...
...that armament makers incite war for their own economic advantage. Last March FORTUNE pointed up the issue in an article setting forth the primary facts of the world arms trade. Editors found the peace-hungry public liked it and the headlines grew. In Congress Senators Nye and Vandenberg proposed an investigation, got nowhere. Then with one eye cocked on the peace clubs about the land, Senator Nye offered an amendment to the 1934 Revenue Act placing a tax of 95¢ on all incomes in excess of $10.000, effective the day the U. S. next declares...
Cried Senator Vandenberg: "It would be exceedingly unfortunate . . . if any premature conclusions, no matter how nobly meditated, should result. . . . The White House conference ignores our first hand information...
...investigator, Stephen Raushenbush. Little more effective was plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who got everybody's dander up by expressing extraneous personal opinions, by taking the attitude that all the witnesses were trying to put something over on the Committee. Best of the Senatorial inquisitors was Michigan's Senator Vandenberg. Yet with all the dramatic material offered by a munitions inquiry, the best dirt the Committee could...