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Married- Barbara Vandenberg, daughter of Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan; and one John Knight of Grand Rapids, Mich.; in Washington...
When the Senate refused to work on Saturday, President Hoover went to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, took Senators Allen of Kansas and Vandenberg of Michigan, "Young Guardsmen" supporting the Treaty, along with him to discuss the Senate situation. They urged him to prod the Senate forward by making a public appeal. They complained that Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering...
...language, Senators immediately got the idea that the documents would make racy personal reading, called for them louder than ever. Reports spread that Ambassador Dawes had characterized one British proposal as "damned nonsense," that Secretary of State Stimson had referred to certain U. S. Senators as "pin-heads." Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a Treaty proponent, insisted, however, that he had read the secret documents and had "had a hard time keeping awake...
Elizabeth, 17, daughter of Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan, suffered lacerations on one hand and a bruised head when an automobile in which she was riding at Grand Rapids collided with another...
Combat began when Democrat Ransdell leaped to the Republican breastworks with a mighty harangue on the "absolute necessity" of sugar protection (for Louisiana). Senator Vandenberg followed this up with a devastating gas attack of statistics to show Michigan's need for a higher sugar duty. Senator Smoot, his heart beating fast for the beet-growers of Utah, delivered an impassioned attack upon the National City Bank of New York. Likewise he smote the "American pop industry" and U. S. chocolate manufacturers with large Cuban sugar properties...