Word: stassenism
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Strange pangs flashed along the brow of Harold Stassen, onetime childe wonder of Republican politics. Long disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
Five Summer School professors agreed last night with Harold Stassen's suggestion that Vice-President Richard Nixon should be removed as President Eisenhower's running mate in the coming election...
...five felt that Nixon was not vice-presidential material and that his presence on the Republican ticket would damage the G.O.P.'s chances in November. They were not, however, unanimous in endorsing the candidacy of Massachusetts Governor Christian A. Herter '14 who was recommended by Stassen...
Louis Hartz '40, associate professor of Government at Harvard, and Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., both backed Stassen's proposal. They agreed that an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would carry with it more House and Senate seats than one where Nixon was the running mate, and to this extent would improve the overall Republican outlook...
...control, with his brother Richard, seven other dailies and two weeklies in Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming and the semimonthly Western Farm Life magazine in Denver, plus three radio stations in Nebraska and Kansas). Elected to Nebraska's Unicameral Legislature for two terms (1945-49), managed Harold Stassen's successful Nebraska primary campaign in 1948. Appointed to the U.S. Senate in December 1951 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska...