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...small loss against a major gain in Nebraska-and missed (TIME, June 24). Now, in his home state, he was staking his political future and his chances for the GOPresidential nomination in 1948 on the belief that his handpicked Governor, Ed Thye, could beat four-term isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination...
...Hearty Feed." But by last week Stassenites suddenly realized that they might be heading for a sharp comeuppance. Despite published polls, reports from district leaders and the gossip of professional politicos showed that shrewd old Henrik Shipstead had been retrieving ground fast, might even be edging ahead...
...rebuffed for intruding in a state not his own, but he had not yet been repudiated as a national candidate. That test would come in the July 8 Minnesota primary, when Stassen's protegé, Governor Edward Thye, runs for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination against old, isolationist Henrik Shipstead...
...that ex-Governor Stassen lacked confidence in his ability to beat isolationist, four-term Senator Henrik Shipstead in the GOPrimaries next July. Stassenites were fully confident that they already had the man to beat Shipstead. He was tall, horny-handed Edward John Thye, who garnered the biggest vote and the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he was elected governor...
Citizen Stassen did a little politicking on his own. In rapid-fire interviews he: 1) praised General MacArthur's occupation policy; 2) came out for universal military training; 3) said he would not support isolationist G.O.P. Senator Henrik Shipstead for re-election next year; 4) hoped he could liberalize the G.O.P. Then he retired to catch up on his reading, before beginning a speech-making tour...