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...Candidate Harry Truman charged that the Republican Party, and thus Candidate Tom Dewey, was the tool of "special interests." Candidate Henry Wallace cried that Candidate Truman was the tool of "the big money or the big brass." Candidate Dewey had not yet said anything, but he had okayed Harold Stassen's accusation that President Truman was trying to set "class against class...
...Demagogic Appeal." Next night, Harold Stassen (after clearing his speech with Tom Dewey) gave the Republican answer. He had almost no crowd-only about 3,000 party workers, who left 2,000 empty seats in Detroit's Masonic Temple. But he had the same radio network...
...determinedly to the routine he had followed ever since his nomination. He boned up on his facts, pored over a specially prepared chronology of Democratic foreign policy. He soaked up new ideas from a constant stream of visitors-from China's Chen Li-fu to ex-Rival Harold Stassen (who was given the job of rebutting Harry Truman's Labor Day speech). In his few free moments, Dewey relaxed with his family, one day banged out a record 83 in a golf tournament for the press...
Three weeks ago, when the University of Pennsylvania picked Harold Stassen as its new president, another announcement was lost in the shuffle. Simultaneously, Pennsylvania reported the resignation of its popular law school dean, Earl G. Harrison, who had been in line for the university's top job, and some of his friends guessed that Dean Harrison quit because Stassen got the job he wanted...
...much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading Greek and Latin, he is a lifetime trustee of the university. His fellow trustees, seeking "the best man available," found him in their own midst, cleared his appointment with Stassen. Said Justice Roberts: "The prospect of working with Stassen is a pleasant...