Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans: Eisenhower--1,360, Senator Robert A. Taft--171; Governor Earl Warren--80; General Douglas MacArthur--33; and Harold Stassen...
Robert Taft limped out of the New Jersey primary last week, still without a firm toehold on either coast. It was 388,907 for Eisenhower to 228,664 for Taft, with Harold Stassen as usual panting far behind (23,801 votes). Republican leaders counted 36 of the state's 38 delegates for Ike, only two for Taft. Eisenhower carried 20 of the state's 21 counties, losing only Hudson County (Jersey City) to the Ohio Senator...
...anticipated battle between Eisenhower and Senator Robert A. Taft never really developed. On the first ballot Ike polled 361 votes, Taft 328, Warren 90, General Douglas MacArthur 36, and Harold Stassen 30. An amazingly large crowd of 12 favorite son candidates, including Herbert Hoover, John Foster Dulles, Senator Wayne Morse, and Alf Landon rounded out the 1,200 delegate votes...
...Middle West, that is. Candidate Taft roused out more Republicans for last week's presidential primary than had voted in an Illinois election since 1932. In traditionally Democratic Cook County-Chicago and suburbs-Republicans cast more ballots than Democrats. Taft rolled up 862,000 votes, rolled over Harold Stassen (145,600) and an ill-conceived Eisenhower write-in movement (135,300) sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times. He lost only one delegate to Eisenhower, and came out of Illinois with the other 59 in the bag-the largest single bundle thus far in the campaign...
...Chicago, after looking over the political field, Old Boxer Joe Louis announced that he would back Harold Stassen over Bob Taft. Said Louis: "My people might just as well vote for Senator [Dick] Russell of Georgia as for Taft. I been to Cincinnati, Taft's home town, and it ain't no different than Atlanta...