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...sidelines. Harold Stassen had risked a small loss against a major gain in Nebraska-and missed (TIME, June 24). Now, in his home state, he was staking his political future and his chances for the GOPresidential nomination in 1948 on the belief that his handpicked Governor, Ed Thye, could beat four-term isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination...
...internationalism from that of the New Deal. He had been rebuffed for intruding in a state not his own, but he had not yet been repudiated as a national candidate. That test would come in the July 8 Minnesota primary, when Stassen's protegé, Governor Edward Thye, runs for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination against old, isolationist Henrik Shipstead...
...that ex-Governor Stassen lacked confidence in his ability to beat isolationist, four-term Senator Henrik Shipstead in the GOPrimaries next July. Stassenites were fully confident that they already had the man to beat Shipstead. He was tall, horny-handed Edward John Thye, who garnered the biggest vote and the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he was elected governor...
Able, friendly Ed Thye (pronounced thigh) owes everything to Harold Stassen, who hand-picked him as his successor when Stassen resigned as governor to enter the Navy early in 1943. Thus when Stassen decided that he could best further his chances outside the Senate, Ed Thye was ready with his candidacy. Stassenites had expected an obstacle: plump, vivacious Mrs. Myrtle Thye, who greatly enjoys being Minnesota's First Lady. There was gossip in Minneapolis that perhaps Harold Stassen himself had had a talk with her. There had been another point: there would have to be a strong candidate...
...Minnesota, Governor Edward J. Thye, picked by Harold Stassen to carry on his administration, was campaigning vigorously for Dewey. And so were nearly all the Stassenites. When Joe Ball withdrew Stassen's name from the Chicago convention, he had said...