Word: stassenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news last week. They would rather have Ike Eisenhower for President than anyone else. A Roper poll showed that General Eisenhower, if he were the Republican candidate, would overwhelm Harry Truman; that if he were the Democratic candidate he would soundly beat any of the leading candidates (only Harold Stassen would give him a close race...
First Ballot. Dewey will break in front, with 300-plus delegates; Taft next with more than 200; Stassen close up with about 150; Vandenberg well back in the field of favorite sons, carrying Michigan's 41 and perhaps a few more...
...Dewey, the victor of Oregon, rode the popular Republican crest last week. When newsmen told him that Harold Stassen had once again declared-with a snappish no-that he would not run for Vice President on a ticket with Dewey, Governor Tom replied: "That's the biggest laugh I've had in a long time...
...Money. Last week the 102nd paper signed up to buy Joseph and Stewart Alsop's column of erudite background, sound and sometimes brilliant opinion, and feedbox gossip. The editors got two pundits for the price of one: while Joe was realistically sizing up Dewey and Stassen in Oregon this month, Stewart was appraising the "twilight terror" in Czechoslovakia...
...excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they named-for the first time in the city's history-a woman...