Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan's Vandenberg [Oct. 2, 1939] -Routed decisively in the Great Neutrality issue...
...Russian Pact, that turned into contempt at weird Russian claims of Finnish aggression, flared to new highs, led to loud demands that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Russia. Said Senator King of Utah: "My country will no longer grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Said Senator Vandenberg: "There is no rational alternative except to drive every trace of Communism and Naziism out of the U. S." Said Senator Russell of Georgia, "Of all the terrible incidents of this year, this is the most tragic." Said Nebraska's Norris, "This is the worst thing that has happened...
District Attorney Dewey, Senator Taft, and Senator Vandenberg, likely Republican choices, will be discussed by James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, Thomas M. Cook '42, and Richard B. Wolf '41, respectively, while Thomas J. O'Toole '42, Grenville Clark, Jr. '41, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, are discussing the qualifications of Paul V. McNutt, Secretary of State Hull, and President Roosevelt...
...Angeles, New Hampshire's blue-eyed, chunky Senator Styles Bridges resumed a national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
...Washington burst out quick pruts of irritation from Senators Minton, Thomas, Vandenberg, Burke, Nye and Adams, as well as several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...