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What had happened to Harold Stassen in the Nebraska primary? He had invaded the state, asked Nebraska Republicans to repudiate old-line, isolationist Senator Hugh Butler, and give the G.O.P. senatorial nomination to liberal Governor Dwight Griswold. The result: a landslide for Butler. Had presidential aspirant Stassen dived under a steamroller or just got his finger caught in a wringer...
Harold E. Stassen stepped into a Pasadena, Calif, elevator, and too many stylish-stout members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce jammed in after him. The elevator struggled upward a half-story, halted, slid gently down to the basement...
Toolmaker & Poet. A college senior, a Chicago toolmaker named Edwin Dzingle, the tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the first bomb, a Texas farmer with a drawl as wide as the Panhandle, discussed the problem earnestly with Albert Einstein, Henry Wallace, Harold E. Stassen, Congressman Jerry Voorhis, Senator Brien McMahon, Harold Ickes, Archibald MacLeish, and Joseph E. Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Citizen Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen...
...Gallup poll, Harold E. Stassen's standing moved up among rank & file Republicans who want him as their candidate in 1948. He was now favored by 34%, more than double a year ago. Tom Dewey still led with 35%-a 24-point drop from his 59% standing...
...closer to me than Morse [Oregon's vocally liberal Senator Wayne Morse]." Then he indicated that there was more to his sudden affection for LaFollette, and to Coleman's frenzied opposition to him, than met the politically naked eye. "Coleman appears to be tied up with Stassen," wrote presidential-hopeful Taft. "I don't think LaFollette will ever get into that campaign because he disapproves of Stassen's foreign policy...