Word: stassenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emissary from the University of Pennsylvania first sounded Stassen out a day after the G.O.P. convention ended-without indicating what uniyersity he represented. He found Stassen receptive. A week later Penn offered him the presidency. Last week, "after careful consideration," Harold Stassen accepted. He would report for duty next fall, he promised-if he had finished his speaking tour "on behalf of Governor Dewey...
...didn't claim to be an educator, but he did have a big name and he was temporarily out of a job. To at least four universities who were looking for a president (Stanford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania), that made Harold Stassen a likely presidential prospect...
...Harold Stassen will be the youngest president in Penn's 208 years. Like Columbia's Eisenhower, he was hired for his personality and his proven administrative ability by trustees who regard big universities as corporations which need executives, not educators, to run them. He will have charge of a faculty of 1,862, a student body of 18,600, and responsibility for raising $32 million for new buildings. Stassen's predecessor, George William McClelland, had resigned the presidency because of ill health, but would still be around as chairman of the university...
...Kremlin was looking for signs of wavering, it found no comfort in the Republican opposition. At his Pawling, N.Y. farm, Governor Thomas E. Dewey conferred with Harold Stassen, talked daily with Foreign Adviser Dulles, who had been thoroughly briefed by George Marshall. General Dwight Eisenhower accepted an urgent invitation to come up for a talk. At a joint press conference, Eisenhower declared: "We agreed that our country must stand with absolute firmness in Berlin...
...That Stassen was available for the Vice Presidency...