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...Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
Appropriations for a contiuance of the European Recovery Program are much safer under Democratic control than under Republican. Although Dewey, Vandenberg, and other leaders have supported this program effectively, the isolationist wing of the Republican party is still strong and would probably have made its influence felt...
...poll the Crimson took last week turned out, like all polls, to be irresistible to the College's humorists, who wrote in votes for many curious people. Ted Williams led the write-ins with four, and was followed closely by Senator Vandenberg with three, and President Conant and Harold Stassen with two each. Abraham Lincoln, Father Feeney, John P. Wintergreen, Sigmund Freud, Jim Cronin, William Jennings Bryan, and Mickey Mouse got a vote spiece...
Mason liked to ask in less favored guests from poorer seats, men like Harry Truman (then a Senator), Bob Taft and Arthur Vandenberg. Soon Mason's box was their favorite hangout. Lawyer Mason's business grew with his friendships. Many clients hired him to defend them before FTC. His income rose to $37,000 before he gave it up for his $10,000 job (as a Republican member of FTC) when good friend Harry Truman offered...
...foreign policy issue is Herter's strongest talking point, for as a leader in bi-partisan legislation his role in the House has been comparable to Vandenberg's in the Senate. Foreign affairs have been his specialty ever since he started in public affairs in 1915, and recently he has risen to prominence as leader of the Congressional Food Committee in 1946 and Director of the Committee on Foreign Aid which laid the groundwork for Marshall Plan...