Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number: "38163." Last July President Roosevelt pardoned him, thus restoring his civil rights (TiME, July 17). In the House are five Farmer-Laborites, in the Senate only one. Last week Farmer-Laborite Shoemaker announced himself a candidate for the Senate seat held since 1923 by tall, grey-haired Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota...
...spending billions directly to raise the pay of other workers, came forward with an amendment that would restore the full pay cut on July 1. The total cost of his project was $63,000,000 additional - a small sum compared to the cost of the whole recovery program. Shipstead, the Farmer-Laborite, 27 of the 35 Republicans, and 12 other Democrats swung in behind him. The McCarran amendment carried 41 to 40. The Administration forces realized they had suffered a serious defeat. If the House, which passed the same bill under gag rule, got a chance to vote...
...Bankers create more communists in this country than all the agents Russia could send here in a century," said the Honorable Henrik Shipstead, Senator from Minnesota, in commenting upon the likelihood of the spread of communism in this country due to our recognition of Russia...
...only Farmer-Laborite in the United States Senate, Senator Shipstead is the acknowledged national leader of that party; and as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, he has given the following interview on the Russian question to the CRIMSON...
...settlement and gentlemen's agreement had been published in full. Chairman Borah of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said: "We have something yet to learn. I am going to wait a while to get the facts." The Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite Minnesota's Shipstead exploded: "If any official of the United States Government has led agents of foreign governments to believe we will cancel debts owed to us for cancellation of Reparations he is very nearly guilty of treason to the United States! He certainly is guilty of swindling foreign governments...