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Another man Eisenhower learned to appreciate during the campaign was Harold Stassen, who had accepted the death of his own presidential chances with good grace and became a valued member of the Eisenhower strategy staff. Ike considered him for Labor or the Mutual Security Administration (foreign aid); Stassen, long deeply interested in international affairs, preferred...
HAROLD EDWARD STASSEN, 45, president of the University of Pennsylvania...
Family & Early Years: His father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother came to the U.S. from Germany when she was six years old. Harold, one of five children, was born April 13, 1907, at West St. Paul, Minn., where his father ran a 40-acre truck farm. He grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year...
...attracted considerable liberal Republican support and had 157 votes on the first ballot at the Philadelphia convention in 1948. He tried again this year, took a pre-convention leave of absence from his university presidency to campaign. But most of his 1948 support had shifted to Eisenhower, and Stassen failed to cut an impressive figure at Chicago. The shift of his Minnesota delegation to Ike at the end of the first roll call was the climax of the convention. Stassen, however, got little or no political credit for this move, and his stock was at a low point when...
...weeks ago the main speaker at the PU meeting was Simon Gerson, secretary of the Communist Party of New York. Next week's featured attraction will be Col. Robert R. McCormick, Yale '03. Speakers in the past have included Harold Stassen, Robert Taft, Norman Thomas, Earl Browder, Justice Robert H. Jackson, and Justice Tom Clark...