Word: stassens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fine's victory gave Duff undisputed control of the party machinery and patronage, finally put old Joe Grundy out in the anteroom. And as one minor effect, Duff's victory did no good for the 1952 presidential hopes of Harold Stassen. Stassen campaigned for Cooke, his 1948 Pennsylvania campaign manager, and that was not likely to endear him to Jim Duff's 73-member Pennsylvania delegation in the 1952 G.O.P. convention...
Demanded one impressed newsman: "Could Taft have done that? Stassen? Dewey? No. Eisenhower? Maybe. A New York crowd would laugh-but these people thought it was wonderful...
...getting an early start. Republicans plotted specific answers to every Truman speech, stepped up their attacks on his snowballing budget deficit and the portside list of his Fair Deal. This time the President lacked a keynote as succinct as his "worst Congress in history" battle cry of 1948; Harold Stassen last week tried to give the Republicans as simple a credo to hurl back. "President Truman," said Stassen, "is the cleverest politician . . . and . . . the worst President ever to occupy the White House...
...Middletown, N.Y., the Young Republican Club voted on its presidential preferences. The results, on a point system of voting: Eisenhower, 90 points; Harold Stassen, 40 points; Robert Taft, Henry Cabot Lodge, and New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, nine points each...
...which carries with it -the most potent patronage-disposal of 40,000 state jobs. They produced a "harmony candidate"-Colonel Jay Cooke, a retired Philadelphia investment banker and a Purple Heart veteran of both world wars. Cooke was not a completely orthodox Grundyite; he had been one of Harold Stassen...