Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them being sufficient to give either the Democrats or Republicans control of the Senate. Calvin Coolidge, however, is no Woodrow Wilson. Last week he set about to placate the insurgents, cajole them, humor them. To a breakfast of buckwheat cakes and sausage at the White House he invited Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Laborite of the Senate, who usually votes with the insurgents. Then too, the President, after a false step, gave in to Senators Nye and Frazier of North Dakota on the question of patronage rewards. And who are these Republican insurgents to whom the President bows...
Although unable to organize the Senate and appoint its majority committees, the Democrats plus Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead plus any one of the half dozen Republican insurgents will be able to control all legislation. And, such being the case, it seems probable that the two slush-tainted Republican Senators-elect, Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, will not be seated...
...enough with the Administration to give it a good resounding kick?" Until the polls opened no one was sure. Senator Cummins made a last minute radio speech from Washington declaring that he was doing everything he could for the farmers. Six progressive Senators, Norris, Hornell, Frazier Nye, La Follette, Shipstead, issued a manifesto urging Iowa to turn to their political kinsman, Smith Wildman Brookhart...
...Vice President Dawes ruled the point well taken. Mr. Neely appealed to the Senate from the Chair's decision, but the Vice President was upheld 62 to 8. Soon came the final vote, 61 to 10 for passage. Five Progressive Republicans, four Democrats and the Farmer-Labor Party (Mr. Shipstead) were alone in opposition...
...Democrats, Blease and Reed (not counting Mr. Dill), voted against the Court. The entire Farmer-Labor party, Mr. Shipstead, was also against the Court. So were 14 Republicans?Borah (Idaho), Brookhart (Iowa), Fernald (Maine), Frazier (North Dakota), Harreld (Oklahoma), Johnson (California), LaFollette (Wisconsin), Moses (New Hampshire), Nye (North Dakota), Pine (Oklahoma), Robinson (Indiana), Schall (Minnesota), Watson (Indiana), Williams (Missouri...