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Stassen

American  
[stas-uhn] / ˈstæs ən /

noun

  1. Harold Edward, 1907–2001, U.S. politician and university president.


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“We had a lot of concession vendors walking back and forth,” Stassen remembers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

Back home, he met many of the ambitious young men who were turning Minnesota into a political powerhouse, including Humphrey, Gov. Harold Stassen, future Gov. Orville Freeman and future Vice President Walter Mondale.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

In 1948, Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen, competing for the Republican nomination, debated a single policy question on national radio: “Shall the Communist Party in the United States be outlawed?”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016

Candidates like Harold Stassen in 1948 and Robert Taft in 1952 were widely expected to do well in their respective campaigns, though both ultimately came up short.

From MSNBC ● Mar. 30, 2016

The last hurrah for the two aging warriors was sounded during a marathon session of the National Security Council on January 6, 1958, when Stassen proposed a new framework for talks with the Soviet Union.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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