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Darby was elated. Early this month, he set up an informal Washington headquarters in the office of Kansas' Senator Frank Carlson. Of the 46 Republican Senators, 23 wanted to see him. To each he explained what Dewey and Stassen had committed themselves to. To each he put one question: "If you were a candidate for office next year, whom would you want to head the ticket?" The answer was overwhelmingly...
...also been talking to Harold Stassen. Stassen, too, was alarmed by the possibility of Taft as a candidate. About the middle of June, Stassen had a private talk with Tom Dewey. He told Dewey that he was going to back Ike to the hilt. Milton Eisenhower, president of Penn State and, in the professionals' view, an authoritative spokesman for brother Ike, had said that the general would not allow the use of his name in primaries as long as he was in uniform. To get around this ban, Stassen proposed that he enter his own name in crucial primaries...
...Next Stassen called 20 faithful supporters to a meeting at the Clarksboro (NJ.) home of Amos J. Peaslee, the affluent lawyer who was Stassen's Eastern money-raiser in 1948. Stassen told them his plan. He admitted that he still dreamed of being President, but he knew that his chances in 1952 would be poor. The Stassen men went away...
...June 7, Penn President Harold Stassen called N.C.A.A. President Hugh Willet, a Southern California professor, and informed him that because of the illegality (allegedly an anti-trust violation) of the new program and the "need for another year of observation of television's full impact on college football," Penn had no intention of heeding the Association's ruling...
...Quakers, unworried, dug themselves in for the immediate, and expected, barrage of abuse. Hall lashed at Stassen's manifest disregard for the common interest and welfare of all the other colleges in the nation." In succession, Columbia, Cornell, California, and Yale balked at signing football contracts, and Dartmouth threatened to cancel the scheduled game of October 6. Commissioner Asa Bushnell of the E.C.A.C. (an N.C.A.A. subordinate) threatened to toss the Quakers but of Conference leagues in other sports...