Word: stassenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup poll last week reported that he had jumped to third position (behind Stassen and Dewey) in popularity with G.O.P. voters; only Vandenberg and Stassen had gained in the last month. The poll also showed that the Michigan Senator would give President Harry Truman a worse drubbing now than he would have a month ago. Said a southern Senator: "Against Truman, Vandenberg would carry several states of the deep South. He is the one man who would make voting Republican respectable down there...
...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...
...just can't understand what all these fellas are so worked up about," said an old man in overalls. He was listening to Harold Stassen on the green courthouse lawn at Dallas, Ore. "This man and Governor Dewey come all the way out here and wear themselves out. We ain't got that much voice in the convention-we only got six electoral votes...
There were a lot of Oregonians who felt just like the old man. They had never had so much attention from a candidate for state office, let alone from a presidential aspirant. But Harold Stassen desperately needed Oregon's twelve convention delegates to get his bandwagon, slowed down in Ohio, rolling again. And Tom Dewey wanted to prove his ability as a vote-getter...
...week. In Pendleton, Dewey got a ten-gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...