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...deliver August 1 in his home town of Elwood, Ind. To help shape the G. O. P. policies that will be announced in it, he said he had summoned Pennsylvania's onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, Kansas' Editor William Allen White, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen. Also from Mr. Willkie came the announcement that Republican campaign headquarters would be established in Chicago...
Three times in one day, Nominee Willkie telephoned defeated Tom Dewey. He chinned with Minnesota's Stassen, who had managed his convention floor forces in Philadelphia. He entertained Massachusetts' Congressman Joe Martin overnight. He saw and handshook a parade of state GOPoliticos-some of whom had fought him up to the last ballot at Philadelphia. For hours he was closeted with a steering committee of twelve G. O. P. National Committeemen...
...almost austere convention hall (no bunting, no parading brass bands) the convention had opened: strapping young Harold Stassen, the Minnesota boy Governor too young (33) to be President, had delivered the keynote speech. No orator, using gestures out of the book, huge Mr. Stassen handled his problem well, but only well: from him no hearer got any sense of a collapsing world...
...Keynoter Harold Stassen began with a thought of his own: "Our forefathers erected here a great lighthouse of liberty," ended with Washington's: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hands...
...Lovejoy believes that it is good for a student to work his way through college, points out as exemplars Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul V. McNutt, Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins, U. S. Senator Claude Pepper, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen, Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium, Cinemactor Fredric March, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Pollster George Gallup. Self-supporting U. S. college students (about half of all undergraduates), he reports, earn $32,500,000 a year, get some $90,000,000 a year in scholarships or loans. Most...