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...Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, isolationism's stronghold, told the Chicago Tribune that he supported the President's foreign policy all the way. Said Republican Stassen: "In this country there can be only one foreign policy at one time. ... I believe we must give united support ... to the established foreign policy of the Federal Government...
Unable to afford one or to find a friend who wore size 7¾, Student Donald Heimes of the University of Minnesota was at a loss for a top hat to wear to the Junior Ball. Then he read in the paper that Governor Harold E. Stassen wore size 7¾. He wrote the Governor. The Governor wrote back, saying come to the Capitol and pick up his. Haberdashing in his gubernatorial topper, Donald went to the dance...
...sharp-tempered. U. S. educators know him as a ball of fire. In his six years as Commissioner, he has pioneered many an educational experiment, made many an enemy, battled many a politician. Last week John Rockwell was fighting for his official life against Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen...
...battle began last summer when the State Board of Education, four of whose five members had been appointed by Governor Stassen, started a purge of Mr. Rockwell's staff. First it fired Eugene Debs Carstater, director of vocational education, for "insubordination" and "inefficiency." The State Civil Service Board found the charges against him flimsy, ordered him reinstated. Commissioner Rockwell declared that the real reasons for ousting him were that: 1) Carstater was friendly to labor, 2) the Stassen administration wanted to get its hands on $1,000,000 allotted to the State by the U. S. Government for defense...
...Minnesota silo-huge Harold E. Stassen, youngest (33) Governor of them all, who had expected to ride to victory with his friend Wendell Willkie on the handle bars, pedaled home barely leading two opponents: Farmer-Laborite Hjalmar Petersen and Democrat Ed Murphy...