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...presidential primary swept across the rich, rolling cattle-&-wheat country, whooping up the vote. Local air waves throbbed with campaign oratory. Autograph hunters had a field day. One enterprising Lincoln girl named Louise Carter managed to get herself photographed shaking hands with Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen inside three days...
Helping Hands. If Tom Dewey set a fast pace, Harold Stassen was even faster. On his first day he talked to overflowing crowds at Lincoln's Union College, at Nebraska Wesleyan, at the University of Nebraska. He stopped to visit his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers, hustled out to a veterans' settlement called Huskerville, where he broadcast above the squawling of babies and a yelping dogfight...
...brought with him a whole troupe of campaigners: Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl and Senator Ed Thye; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. While they stumped on their own, Stassen kept rolling: to a breakfast of the Platte County Republicans at Columbus (where he promised the Midwest a Secretary of Agriculture); to Norfolk (where he plumped for the inclusion of farm labor costs in parity prices) ; to Fremont (where he backed the Pick-Sloan plan for developing the Missouri River Valley, called for outlawing of the Communist party). He even found time to go to a Shrine circus...
...Gallup poll reported this week that either Tom Dewey, Arthur Vandenberg, Harold Stassen or Douglas MacArthur would defeat the President if the election were held now. Only Bob Taft ran behind Harry Truman; Henry Wallace was a poor third (no more than...
...Makkasu Gensui [Field Marshal MacArthur] made a poor showing in Wisconsin, I think differently," Oda said. "Returns showed the Gensui has sokojikara [depth and strength]. Here is a saint and philosopher who has not been home in years, nor campaigned for himself - and yet he comes in second to Stassen. ... I view the Wisconsin primaries as an indica tion that the Supreme Commander has more than a good chance of becoming President...