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...combination of factors. The bigger Democratic vote was largely due to the fact that there was a hot contest in the Democratic primary, and no contest on the Republican side. Some Republicans crossed over to embarrass the Democratic leadership, an old trick introduced in Minnesota years ago by Harold Stassen. Others voted on the Democratic side because they are angry about the farm situation. No doubt hundreds of Democrats voted for Kefauver because they resented what he so expertly exploited as an attempt by the party "bosses" to shove Stevenson down their throats...
...Administration is yielding to pleas from Britain to ease East-West trade restrictions, the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee opened hearings on the current state of trade with the Communist bloc. In its line of questioning, the subcommittee made plain that its target will be Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen, who, as director of the Foreign Operations Administration, approved a general relaxation of controls...
...guide covers 12 broad areas of vocational opportunities, with articles written by men distinguished in the fields. President Pusey, novelist Herman Wouk, industrialist Harlow Curtice, and politician Harold Stassen are among the 39 prominent contributors...
...year ago (TIME, Jan. 3, 1955), Russian-born Wolf Ladejinsky was fired as a security risk by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from his job as an Asian land-reform planner. The charges were aired and proved ridiculous; Ladejinsky was rehired by Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration to work on land reform in Viet Nam. Last week the International Cooperation Administration (successor to FOA) announced that it had demanded and received Ladejinsky's resignation. This time the charges were about 100% different: Ladejinsky appeared as a capitalist investor-and in the economy of Nationalist China, at that...
...aimless and frustrating year for the Senator. The Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, the National Labor Relations Board, the United States guided missile program, the Administration's farm policy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Eisenhower and a cherished McCarthy enemy, Harold Stassen, all came in for their share of criticism, but somehow the public and the press failed to sit up and take notice as they had done only a few months before. With his committee chairmanship gone in the Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations...