Word: stassens
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Other New Republicans: South Dakota's Harland J. Bushfield, Wyoming's Nels H. Smith, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall. Iowa's George A. Wilson, Idaho's C. A. Bottolfsen. New Democrats: Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor, California's Culbert Olson, North Dakota's John Moses...
...Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro vote...
...Minnesota, where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer Austin Benson has been branded a friend of "Reds" in his campaign for reelection, most of the newspapers have frankly slanted news and headlines to favor his youthful, gladhanding, Republican opponent, Harold E. Stassen. (A notable exception: the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star.) The angry Governor did not help matters by declaring that every daily paper in the State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator...
Candidate Benson worries not so much about the 125,000 votes Stassen polled in the Republican primary as the 210,000 votes polled by insurgent ex-Governor Hjalmar Petersen in the Farmer-Labor primary. Insurgent Petersen, who thinks he and not "Radical" Elmer Benson is the rightful heir of Farmer-Labor's late, great Boss Floyd Olson, has pointedly failed to make his peace with the Governor. Other insurgent Farmer-Laborites have emphasized the split by testifying before the Dies Committee in Washington that today's Farmer-Labor party is riddled with Communism...
...this has given Harold Stassen an unparalleled chance to make hay. A more energetic campaigner than bespectacled Governor Benson, he has covered 20,000 Minnesota miles in his car, bellowing into a back seat dictaphone between speeches. He makes as many as four in one evening, always scurries to the back of the hall to pump the hand of each departing listener...