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...topic of the evening was chosen by the central committee of the nation wide Republican Open Forum, organized by the Stassen wing of the Republican Party, for discussion in all the local branches during the month of January...
...Harold Stassen's flat announcement that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1948 (TIME, Dec. 30) tempted no older hands to the same early statement of aims. But other obvious candidates were watching, and two of them were from the same state: Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and her former Governor John Bricker, who will take his seat in the Senate this week. In 1940 Bricker had stood aside and let the 50 votes of the Ohio delegation go to Taft. In 1944 Taft had returned the favor, and Bricker had won the vice...
...nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as General Sherman's brusque withdrawal...
...press conference in Washington, Harold Stassen laid it on the line: "I am a candidate. I intend to develop and present a definite, constructive and progressive program to our Republican Party." He would open an office in Washington; a Stassen-for-President club was already raising funds. His first goal was set: "To move the Republican Party along the path of true liberalism." All other G.O.P. hopefuls were caught off base...
...onetime St. Paul newspaper man, friend of Harold Stassen, and an ardent internationalist, Joe Ball has been called a liberal. In 1944 he crossed party lines to support Franklin Roosevelt against Tom Dewey. But since then, organized labor has soured on him. Ball's belief in the individual does not jibe with labor's belief in the union. He has made it clear that he thinks organized labor has gained too much power...