Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petition from the Minnesota branch of the League of Women Voters advocating entrance into the World Court, and said to carry 100,000 signatures was presented to Mr. Coolidge. He advised that in order to secure action the petition be taken to the Minnesota Senators, Hendrik Shipstead and Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Laborites...
...Eleventh.......... 41 l*-† Twelfth................ 39 11† Thirteenth............. 39 12†38 Fourteenth............... 38 12† 38 voting nearly ended at the eighth ballot. Brookhart, Frazier, Howell, Ladd, Norris, Republican insurgents, voted consistently for La Follette (who was ill and not present). With them voted the Farmor-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. On the seventh ballot all the insurgent group except Howell, Ladd and Norris voted for the Democratic candidate. On the eighth ballot, Ladd joined those voting for Smith-and Smith would have been elect-! had not Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, a Democrat, voted for Senator...
...Senate, packed his trunks and announced that he would sail on Dec. 22 for the Court of St. James. He is ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. It is not impossible that Mr. Kellogg would have declined the nomination also, had he still been Senator, Nevertheless Senator Shipstead (his successor), Senator Magnus Johnson -both Farmer-Laborites - Senators Wheeler, Dill, Ferris and Copeland- Democrats - and Senators Frazier, Brookhart and Norris-Republicans- voted against the appointment for the reason that Mr. Kellogg had been taken out of politics by the ballot. Seventy-five other Senators, with favorable votes, sped their former...
Senate Republicans. Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts was re-elected as floor leader of his party in the Senate. Mr. Curtis of Kansas was chosen as Senate whip. The progressives?La Follette, Brookhart, Norris, Ladd and Frazier, were not present. The two Farmer Laborites, Shipstead and Johnson of Minnesota, did not attend, as they had contemplated doing, for fear such action might be misinterpreted in Minnesota. In half an hour, with small fuss, the conference was over...
...Frank Kellogg, 66 years old, " frail in figure and nervous in demeanor," was Senator from Minnesota for the term 1917-1923. Last Spring he retired involuntarily, having been defeated for reelection by Hendrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite. He became a lame duck by a margin of more than 80,000 votes...