Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preus, who quit the governorship of Minnesota to take the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Knute Nelson, will not be 40 until August. His colleague, Hendrik Shipstead, elected last Fall, is not yet 42. Politically the two have nothing in common. Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, ranks as a "radical"; Preus is a conservative Republican...
...likely to retire. Will Senator-Elect Earl B. Mayfield of Texas follow Mr. Newberry to the bourne from which no politicians return? According to statisticians, Mayfield's chances are these: Five Republicans and 27 Democrats that he will sit in the Senate; 47 Republicans, 15 Democrats, and Senator Shipstead (Farmer-Labor) that he will not. Senator Mayfield was "elected by the Ku Klux Klan"-which is enough to put most Republicans and the Northern Democrats against him. In addition, he is accused of various corrupt practices. It is expected that he will be allowed to take his seat...
...next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who must appoint a successor to Senator Nicholson, is a Democrat sponsored by the Nonpartisan League. Senators Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead, Wheeler, Howell, Brookhart and La Follette were also sponsored by the League. Consequently it is expected that a radical Democrat will be appointed to the vacancy caused by Senator Nicholson's death. The resulting alignment will be: Republicans 52 Democrats 43 Farmer-Labor 1 But if-as seems probable...
...sure that good, old-fashioned "children should be seen and not heard" idea has long been dead; and Senator La Follette, a proven veteran of many a filibustering campaign, helped drive the balls into the come in his teaching days. The newcomers out of the West, Frasler, Shipstead, and Brookhart, together with the old Lochinvars, Borah, La Follette, and Norris, are few in number but present a formidable array...