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...last week gave the first assignment: To translate all the works of August Strindberg, satirical, gloomy, thrice-married, woman-hating Swedish essayist, fictionist and dramatist. Author Strindberg, (1849-1912) is famed for his bitter efforts to counteract the Scandinavian feminist movement fostered by Dramatist Henrik Ibsen of Norway...
...them being sufficient to give either the Democrats or Republicans control of the Senate. Calvin Coolidge, however, is no Woodrow Wilson. Last week he set about to placate the insurgents, cajole them, humor them. To a breakfast of buckwheat cakes and sausage at the White House he invited Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Laborite of the Senate, who usually votes with the insurgents. Then too, the President, after a false step, gave in to Senators Nye and Frazier of North Dakota on the question of patronage rewards. And who are these Republican insurgents to whom the President bows...
...Henrik Shipstead, 45, Senator from Minnesota, a second-generation Norwegian, stands 6 ft. 1 in. in his stocking feet. A mighty, clean-cut Viking, both in demeanor and politics, is he. As a young dentist, he read economics and sociology. In 1916, politics claimed him. Twice defeated, for Congress by Andrew J. Volstead and for Governor by J. A. O. Preus, Mr. Shipstead climbed into his Ford in 1922 and snorted on to Washington ahead of Frank B. Kellogg, who drove a Pierce Arrow in that Senate race. On arrival, Mr. Shipstead was put on the Foreign Relations Committee...
Married. Charlotte MacDougall, daughter of Rear Admiral William Dugald MacDougall; to Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister to China and Japan; at Portsmouth, N. H. Married. Lawrence Lewis, one-time husband of Louise Wise Lewis (who inherited part of the Flagler railroad and oil millions); to one Ruby Vaughan Bigger; in Richmond...
Although unable to organize the Senate and appoint its majority committees, the Democrats plus Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead plus any one of the half dozen Republican insurgents will be able to control all legislation. And, such being the case, it seems probable that the two slush-tainted Republican Senators-elect, Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, will not be seated...