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...Vandenberg: Mr. President, will the Senator be good enough to put that computation in the Record. I follow his eloquence but not his mathematics...
...after the President's pronouncement against lawyer-lobbying. Michigan's eloquent Senator Vandenberg flipped out of his desk an antilobbying bill of his own design. The Vandenberg measure would: 1) prohibit National Committeemen of either party from practicing law before Government departments and 2) prevent any Government employe from soliciting funds for his party. The President shrewdly took the Republican bill under his large political wing, suggested that the first prohibition be expanded to include all Government has-beens...
...from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests...
When Senator Reed began to talk about the results of Germany's inflation, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg dramatically presented him with a 100,000,000,000-mark note which he explained was now worth 2½?. To shame gold-greedy Republicans, Louisiana's Long dipped into Roman history and plucked out as a horrible example Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 B. C.). According to Senator Long, opulent Crassus, after bleeding the citizenry of Rome of all its gold, was put to death by having the molten metal poured down his throat...
...sitting Senators have voted Wet. But here again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung to Repeal if not to beer include Arkansas' Robinson, Mississippi's Harrison, Ohio's Fess, Georgia's George, Arizona's Ashurst, Washington's Dill, Michigan's Vandenberg, Tennessee's McKellar. Republican Floor Leader Watson last week declared he was for 2.75% beer because "it doesn't mean anything?it's only slop...