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They listened approvingly to experts on everything. Indefatigable Harold Stassen* was there to talk about world cooperation. Fiery Fiorello LaGuardia made a moving plea for UNRRA. Physicist Harold C. Urey and Major General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of atomic energy, explained nuclear fission...
Hard-shell Republicans were confident that he had been rolled out flatter than a gingerbread man. With a spuriously funereal air, the Chicago Tribune published his political obituary: "There was nothing left of Harold, his presumptions or his platform. The result is immensely gratifying . . . Stassen is eliminated . . . he is as dead politically as Willkie after the Wisconsin primary...
...Stassen's backers and many another G.O.P. liberal insisted that their boy was hardly scratched. Butler, they argued, had a vast, statewide organization, was backed by all top party leaders, had had a great edge on Griswold from the beginning. Also Butler claimed he was not really an isolationist...
...Stassen had weighed a calculated loss against the great benefits to be derived from an upset victory, and had gambled. He had failed completely to disassociate his brand of internationalism from that of the New Deal. He had been rebuffed for intruding in a state not his own, but he had not yet been repudiated as a national candidate. That test would come in the July 8 Minnesota primary, when Stassen's protegé, Governor Edward Thye, runs for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination against old, isolationist Henrik Shipstead...
...evenings they piled into the big Shriner auditorium to hear Harold Stassen blast U.S. Communists, Walter Reuther blame U.S. labor troubles on insufficient "consumer capacity" (i.e., too low wages). Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, Chicago's famed radical Catholic bishop, brought down the house with a savage attack on racial inequalities and congressional dawdling...