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CONGRATULATIONS ON ACCURATE REPORTING OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF HAROLD E. STASSEN. . . . [HE] PULLED MINNESOTA OUT OF A MESS SIMILAR TO THE ONE IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES FINDS ITSELF TODAY. HE CAN DO THE JOB NATIONALLY AS HE DID IN MINNESOTA...
Having read your article on Harold Stassen [TIME, Aug. 25], the writer conducted a one-man poll on the 1948 election. The result -one Republican vote if Stassen is nominated-otherwise a vote reluctantly cast for Harry Truman. PAUL SABINE Tucson, Ariz...
...Dealing Chicago Sun needled New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey with a sly "The Cat's Got His Tongue" (see cut). At the American Legion's convention last week, Front-Runner Dewey publicly endorsed universal military training, thus evoking from Legionnaire Harold E. Stassen the comment that it was nice to hear Mr. Dewey taking a stand on something...
...when Kansas delegates thronged forward in an attempt to set off an Eisenhower-for-President boom, National Commander Paul Griffith waved them back. The ovation ended after only 30 seconds, and with it the theory that the convention would play a major part in presidential politics. (Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, a delegate to the convention, got a thunderous ovation when he spoke in behalf of the "Marshall approach...
Harry Truman's 1948 stock has taken a strong upsurge, the FORTUNE Survey reported last week. In March, the FORTUNE poll showed that any one of four Republican candidates-Dewey, Stassen, Vandenberg or Taft-would have beaten the President if an election had been held then. After President Truman's vetoes of the tax and labor bills, FORTUNE measured the same candidates' popularity against his. Results: Tom Dewey is now the only G.O.P. hopeful running ahead of Harry Truman. But Dewey is only two percentage points in front; his rating slipped from 50% to 45%, while Truman...