Word: preus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 and straightway issued his ultimatum to the Senate: "You may think that because you have been good enough...
...Preus of Minnesota. "But Jake doesn't laugh at politics. He takes it as seriously as most people take mah jong; and he plays the game day and night. 'He's the best d? officeholder in the world,' one of his political opponents told me. He never leaves his desk until everything is cleaned up and in good shape. Then he'll go out and address 40 million picnics, and arrive at every one on time. When it comes to political meetings, Jake's a regular Paul Revere...
...LaFollette finances, said this was to be a "cash-and-carry . . . pay-as-you-go campaign." It was intimated that some $100,000 was already on hand. If so, this is almost twice as much as the Repub- licans had on hand a month ago. Governor J. A. O. Preus, Republican, of Minnesota, who has struggled with the Farmer-Labor Party at home, gave his opinion of the coming Campaign: "La Follette is going to surprise the natives this Fall by the large popular vote he will win all over the Country, and by the very small electoral vote that...
...Governor Preus, the one hope of the Republicans to keep some sort of a working majority in the Senate, was obliged by the rigors of the campaign to attack the Fordney-McCumber tariff and to keep silence about the Administration. Nevertheless, he was defeated by the discontent of the Minnesota farmers and workingmen of the Iron Range district, and by the vigorous campaigning of a capable politician...
...roar: "I tell you, Magnus Johnson knows what is the matter. I got a pretty good farm and I got a good-sized mortgage on it and I got a wife and children and I got 24 cows, and my wife and children milk those cows, too. . . . Jake [Governor Preus] is a lawyer, and I'm glad he is running against me. I tell you, friends, Magnus is a lucky cuss...