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...Drive for Five." When Mintener wanted to enter Ike in the Minnesota primary, the headmen of the Eisenhower-for-President movement in Washington said no. That was Friend Harold Stassen's territory, they said, and should not be violated. But the Minnesotans entered a slate of delegates for Ike, anyway. Some legal technicalities weren't complied with, and the State Supreme Court threw the slate off the ballot. When that happened, 13,000 undistributed "I Like Ike" buttons were shipped on for use in South Dakota...
Striplings for Stassen...
...middle-class Yankees, all the influential Republican leaders were for Taft. Before he made his speech there, Tilton was considered a Taft stronghold. There was no Eisenhower organization. The vote: Eisenhower 161, Taft 153. At Berlin (pop. 16,545), a paper-mill town in the far north, Candidate Harold Stassen spoke to 800 and the next night Taft talked to 1,200. The vote: Eisenhower 933, Stassen 814, Taft...
Among the Democrats there was a rash of write-ins on the preferential ballot. Among those who got votes were James A. Farley, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, MacArthur, Taft, Adlai E. Stevenson, Paul H. Douglas, Stassen, and Earl Warren. These counted only a small percentage of the total...
First reporting precincts gave Eisenhower a slight lead over Taft, with Stassen and MacArthur picking up a few scattered votes. On the Democratic side. Kefauver had a very slight edge over Truman...