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Fourthly, it is to be hoped that the Republican Party and conservative opinion in America will finally have the intelligence to admit their grievous error of winking while civil liberty, supposedly the traditional bastion of conservatives, was being destroyed. Not since Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Taft was not averse to praising Senator McCarthy. No historical revisionism or sentiment for the departed can erase this fact. Yet there are many Republicans who currently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR YEARS OF UNREASON, | 6/2/1954 | See Source »

California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Theme of the fair was developed by Publicist Clyde Milner Vandeburg, who helped promote the recent Dallas and San Diego fiestas. He turned a futuristic, local conception into a glamorous fairyland motif with the slogan: "See All the West in '39." That brought in all California's neighbor States. It wowed the transportation companies. And it was based on the sound perception that, whereas whole families stayed in town for weeks to see San Francisco's marvelous 1915 exposition, the average stay of today's streamlined travelers is two and one half days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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