Word: stassenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night of his slam-bang Wisconsin campaign, Candidate Harold Stassen gave a little dinner party at La Crosse for the newsmen who had accompanied his final drive. Then he drove back across the Minnesota line to his home in St. Paul. Next morning he slept late, napped in the afternoon, played a game of chess with his son Glen. After a quiet family supper he flipped on the radio, started listening to broadcast returns and the excited telephone calls from his Wisconsin managers. By 10 o'clock that night Harold Stassen knew...
...final returns added up to a thumping, upset victory. In a state where General Douglas MacArthur was loudly ballyhooed as a dazzling favorite son, where Tom Dewey had twice before swept the field, Stassen had picked up 19 of Wisconsin's convention delegates, cut MacArthur off with eight, frozen Tom Dewey out altogether. Crowed a jubilant Stassenite: "The prairies are on fire and getting hotter for Stassen all the time...
Students for Stassen, along with their Radcliffe and Wellesley guests, got the inside story on their candidate's prospects last night from Jack Higgons and Robert J. Rosthal of the nation-wide Citizens for Stassen. Over 60 people attended the meeting, which was held in Winthrop Junior Common Room...
Both speakers expressed considerable optimism over Stassen's chances to capture the presidency, but devoted most of their time to criticizing Taft--"confused reactionary"; Wallace--"confused liberal"; and Truman--"just confused...
Rosthal said that Stassen is without a doubt "the people's choice...