Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock the roll was ordered called. They answered: 37 Republicans and 31 Democrats for cloture, 18 Republicans, 7 Democrats and Farmer-Labor Senator Shipstead, against...
Young Bob LaFollette, with his father's platform and his father's organization, was picked as the logical winner. On his behalf Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Progressive Democrat of Montana, came campaigning into the state...
From the wide open spaces of Minnesota, where grow corn and wheat and financial reforms, comes a new proposal for peace upon earth with the dollar sign as the herald angel. The spokesman is Senator Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His proposition is to establish control by the Federal Government of all American banking and investment credit in the international field as a means of promoting world peace...
...Senator Shipstead, in putting his proposal before the Senate showed a realization, even if a somewhat exaggerated one, of the important position of the United States in world finance. Control of international credit, he feels, gives the United States the "greatest power for good or evil that was ever given any nation in the world to control." He is doubtful of the wisdom with which this power is now being used. The doubts of Senator Shipstead are in many cases justified, but unfortunately his proposal raises the embarrassing question of whether the people of the United States are willing...
...consideration was that Mr. Stone was confirmed as an Associate Justice, 71 to 6. The only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively...