Word: stassenism
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...hope this letter will convince all my friends from Dudley to Eliot, and especially in Barnard, that I'm glad I'm here. I'm even learning to enjoy such things as after dinner coffee, cold rain, and the CRIMSON. Kathlean Stassen...
...soundly trouncing Republican Harold Stassen. Dilworth energetically carried out the cleansweep urban renewal programs begun under Clark, made his own mark as an all-out liberal reformer...
...Russians could only counter with demands for nuclear disarmament without controls. Both sides soon realized that the negotiations were futile. But both kept up the pretence. As Harold Stassen has pointed out, the diplomats soon developed a standardized technique: either side would submit an extremely complex proposal that would prolong negotiations, but that they knew would be ultimately found unacceptable. Time was gained for military development at home, and the rejection of plans could be trumpeted abroad as a sign of the opponents' bad faith...
...Admirals Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strauss of the AEC teamed up with John Foster Dulles to keep Eisenhower's plans mired in day-to-day trivialities. Dulles never expected results from negotiations, and thought of them simply as opportunities for propaganda. He continually undercut Harold Stassen's authority when Stassen showed signs of making progress in the London negotiations of 1957, forcing him to check and recheck with the department on the smallest developments. Stassen charged later that Dulles deliberately wrecked the conference...
When Philadelphia Attorney Harold Stassen, 53, one of the most former of U.S. political bigwigs, wrote the Kennedy Administration last week urging U.N. membership for two Germanys and two Chinas, the United Press International dutifully dispatched the news to subscribing papers. In New York, the exhaustive ("All the News That's Fit to Print") Times ignored the item, and the tabloid Daily News put it on the obituary page...