Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henrik Shipstead, U. S. Senator from Minnesota, is a dentist...
...There is one dentist-Senator Shipstead of Minnesota. * Friend and medical adviser of Woodrow Wilson...
There was a lame composition about primary slush funds, entitled "Show That Fellow the Door.' They sang Senator Shipstead's farewell to his Farmer-Labor Party and a none too ingenious parody intended to represent Senator James A. Reed...
...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...
...Senator Shipstead sees the Farmer-Labor party dwindling around him; he is fast becoming a man without a party. Perhaps his next move will be to embrace Republicanism in name-but never in principle...