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...week long the urgent bulletins from harried Dewey lieutenants in Wisconsin reported new gains by General Douglas MacArthur and indefatigable Harold Stassen. Unless Dewey reversed his 1944 strategy, when he swept the Wisconsin primaries without lifting a finger, he might find himself out in the cold after next week's primary election. At week's end Tom Dewey made his decision: he would hustle out to Wisconsin this week, would follow up with a trip to Nebraska...
HAROLD E. STASSEN Beloit...
...poll, taken among Republicans before General MacArthur's announcement, showed these preferences, in percentages: Dewey, 37; Stassen, 15; Taft, 14; Vandenberg, 13; MacArthur, 12; Warren, 6; Martin, 1; Saltonstall...
Last week's primary in New Hampshire -the first test of 1948-illustrated their point. Tom Dewey won six delegates-no less than he had expected. Harold Stassen won the other two-no more than actually expected. Each side was satisfied. Dewey's organization power was proved again. So was Stassen's vote appeal; Stassemen led in almost every town and hamlet in which he had done some personal campaigning. But in New Hampshire there was no real bandwagon enthusiasm for either...
...Dewey were to make a better showing in the next two primaries, he would have to develop more zip than he had shown in New Hampshire. In Wisconsin (April 6), Stassen will be on friendlier ground, and General MacArthur will have the benefit of some advance spadework in his home state. In Nebraska (April 13), almost every avowed and unavowed candidate's name (including Vandenberg's) is on the free-for-all ballot...