Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy committee's acting chairman, Michigan Auto Dealer Arthur E. Summerfield, who tried to win the 1948 presidential nomination for Senator Vandenberg, said that he personally was clear on what the party's position should be: "I think everyone here will agree with me that the difference between the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations is that with Roosevelt we were drifting toward socialism, but with Truman there is no drift-it's a headlong rush . . ." Said Summerfield: "We must be brutally frank." The G.O.P. should "divest itself of 'me-too-ism' and go to the people...
...later years, Hoover and Coolidge both employed ghostly assistance. And in his campaign speeches, Warren Harding had the help of a rising young ghost, Arthur Vandenberg, then editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. Today, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg is one of the few who fashion their own rolling periods unaided...
...flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead. So far in November two other B-29s had gone down, both because of engine trouble. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg grounded all B-29s whose engines had not been overhauled and modernized...
...delegation, and more recently he was appointed by Governor Dowey to fill a vacant Senate seat. In both these positions he showed great interest in international affairs, but all the importance features of our present policy have been determined by the Democratic Secretaries of State and chiefly Senator Vandenberg for the Republicans...
...taking undue honors upon himself, Mr. Dulles has not only breached the good faith on which our bi-partisan foreign policy was formed, but he has been unjust to these Republicans, such as Senator Vandenberg, who truly have a right to their party's share of the credit. Arthur J. Marter...