Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
Bears. The U. S. Senate nearly lost its entire farmer-labor bloc lately. So the country learned when Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, lone farmer-laborite showed his friends some cinema films last week, taken by him on his vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead...
Lastly Señor Tijerīno; (whose statement to the press was in the form of an open letter to Senator Henrik Shipstead*) declared...
Said U. S. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota: "We have stood around long enough meeting the situation with halfway measures...
Meanwhile, Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite from Minnesota, approached the Haitian shores. It is expected that he will be allowed to land, to conduct an unofficial investigation...