Stassen
Americannoun
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“We had a lot of concession vendors walking back and forth,” Stassen remembers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
When his delegate was reported to have received 638 votes in the primary, more than half as many as went to the perennial candidate Harold Stassen, Mr. Kitman demanded a recount.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 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
Stassen had been labeled the “boy wonder” of Republican politics after his 1938 election as governor of Minnesota at the age of thirty-one.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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