Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...balding, 45-year-old Detroit lawyer named John Francis James FitzGerald shocked himself, Michigan and Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg by creeping up on that supposedly impregnable incumbent in late returns...
...Just to name a few, the following Republican leaders voted against the act -Senators McNary, Vandenberg, Nye and Johnson; Congressmen Martin, Barton and Fish...
Willkie, said the statement, was nominated "by the Hitler formula" with the calculating support of Isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, anti-New Deal Congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the Governor of the 'German' State of the Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress...
...bill had been ordered by the President two months ago to prevent war millionaires. Far from doing that, shouted Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, "this bill sets up a new class of war millionaires-namely, so-called tax experts. Anyone who can explain this can become a millionaire overnight." Senator Vandenberg, who had had a succés with the phrase a few weeks before, repeated "I still think it is an imponderable mess." The President himself, in signing the bill, was this week expected to remark on its shortcomings...
...most intricate tax bill ever presented to Congress." At that time it was 96 pages long. By last week it had grown to 489 pages, weighed 1 Ib. 7 oz. without binding, and had progressed from intricacy to metaphysics. Senator La Follette called it "a complicated hodgepodge." Senator Vandenberg called it "an imponderable mess." Said Senator Hiram Johnson of certain sections: "I do not think a Philadelphia lawyer could understand them." Even Pat Harrison made fun of it. As he dragged it off to a joint conference committee, he also indicated that it would pass both Houses in final form...