Word: stassenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur, Torn Dewey and Harold Stassen got most of the play in the political headlines and over the radios last week, but the man who was showing the biggest gains in the Republican presidential sweepstakes was Arthur Vandenberg. This week the Gallup poll clocked the race, confirmed what many a GOProfessional had already guessed: in the six weeks since Ike Eisenhower dropped out, the Michigan Senator's popularity had more than doubled; the declared candidates had neither gained nor lost much ground...
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...
McConnell promptly filed Vandenberg's name, along with those of Dewey, Taft, Stassen, MacArthur, Warren and Speaker Joe Martin. "I suppose this makes you mad as the devil," said a reporter. "Period," said Vandenberg, grinning broadly...
Harold E. Stassen, candidate for the Republican nomination, will probably speak at the University in April, Dan M. Pierce '49, president of the recently formed Citizens for Stassen Committee announced yesterday...