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Taken all together, the Ball measures represented such a drastic rewriting of the ground rules passed by the New Deal (and by labor considered sacred) that the astute Bob Taft backed away. Harold Stassen, who came before the committee with a bland legislative pudding of his own, was solemnly aghast at the pungent recipe concocted by his old friend Ball. No more than half of Ball's measures would ever be accepted by the Senate committee. The industry-wide bargaining and closed-shop prohibitions would almost certainly be dumped. The bitter pill would be sugarcoated...
Minnesota Senator. It was about this time that he met a county attorney named Harold Stassen. Ball liked Stassen's views. They were two intellectual explorers in Midwest Minnesota and Joe helped elect Harold governor. So in 1940, when Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in an airplane crash, the nation's youngest governor (Stassen was then 33) filled the vacancy with Joe Ball, who at 34 became the nation's youngest Senator...
Ambitious Harold Stassen's careful apprenticeship for the GOPresidential nomination reached Phase Two. He had spent most of his first year out of the Navy stumping the U.S. (total speeches: 208). Last week he took off for a two months' trip to Europe...
...other was rambunctious Harold Stassen, the only avowed Republican candidate in the ring. In a radio speech before Manhattan's National Republican Club he said: "A high tariff policy no longer suits America. . . . We believe in the increased flow of goods and materials and services and travel around the globe.... The alternative is either to go forward now with the reciprocal trade agreements, or to slide backward in economic isolation...
...intraparty wranglings, they were sure they would win in 1948. They were beginning to realize they could not win with just any old candidate; they would have to pick a top-notcher. And they had quite a selection to choose from, ranging from inactive Bob Taft to radioactive Harold Stassen...