Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House correspondents had it figured, Harold Stassen's 9:45 a.m. appointment with Dwight Eisenhower could only mean that Childe Harold needed a job. It was more than two years since he was flattened in the wreck of his "Dump Nixon" movement at the Republican National Convention. It was nine months since he had turned State Department hair grey as the President's special aide on disarmament and finally had been shown to the gate. Then last May, running for G.O.P. nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania, he was flattened again by Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur McGonigle. But when...
...Dick Nixon. "There are a number of men," said he, "who could lead our Republican Party to victory in 1960-Ambassador Lodge, Governor Rockefeller, Secretary [of the Treasury] Bob Anderson and Secretary [of the Interior] Fred Sea-ton." "Can't you think of one other?" a reporter asked. Stassen glowered at him, said nothing. "What about Nixon?" asked another. Replied Harold deadpan: "I think that this election of 1958 speaks for itself in that regard. I will be doing what I can to keep the way open for these four men." Would he start up an organization? "That," said...
Discussing past disarmament talks, Davis stated that Secretary of State Dulles sent Harold Stassen to the London Disarmament Conference as a "fall-guy." Dulles was forced to go through the motions of a conference by aroused public opinion in this country, Davis said...
...Harold Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, ex-candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the U.S., ex-president of the University of Pennsylvania, ex-White House disarmament adviser, had wandered around Pennsylvania for weeks, trying to round up enough votes to win the G.O.P. primary for Governor and a second political wind. Last week came the primary test-and for Harold Stassen it was over almost before it began. Within three hours after the polls closed, he knew he had lost all of crucial Philadelphia's 58 wards, fallen behind by 88,000 votes to Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur...
That left Harold Stassen, once the hottest thing in Republican politics, out in the cold for what promised to be a tough general election. In November Republican McGonigle runs against Pittsburgh's powerful Democratic Mayor David Lawrence for Governor, and G.O.P. Representative Hugh Scott Jr. runs against incumbent Democratic Governor George Leader for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Ed Martin. For those who thought Stassen was through with politics, Childe Harold had a word of warning: "When God ends my life," said he. "that's when my career will...