Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chavez as "unadmired," in contradistinction to admired Senator Hatch, TIME had in mind the Senate's estimate of the two men. The day Mr. Chavez was sworn in to the Senate, a group of that body's most distinguished members (Norris, Johnson, Nye, La Follette, Shipstead) pointedly left the chamber. That Senator Chavez is tea-colored, like the good U. S. constituents who elect him, is neither disgraceful nor untrue...
Scott Lucas, freshman Democrat from Illinois, was another keen disappointment to Leader Barkley and his Whip, old J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. So were North Carolina's Bob Reynolds and Minnesota's Shipstead. The latter said he voted in protest to a placard in WPA headquarters urging WPAsters to telegraph to Senators. "I'm tired of pressure," snorted Shipstead...
...Successor to the late Joseph Robinson as Senate majority leader is (1 Samuel H. Reyburn, 2 Henrik Shipstead, 3 Bertrand H. Snell, 4 Robert M. La Follette Jr. 5 Alben W Barkley...
Senators feared that this sententious pronouncement was only too true. After hearing it Senator Shipstead went home to bed. Senator Norris had already left Washington for vacation, a very sick man. Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona was seriously ill. Senator King had just recovered from a long sick spell. The health of many another was none too good...
Same day, while Mr. Prince dispatched a fiery reply to Mr. Jones, Senator Shipstead took a hand in the matter. He suggested to Mr. Roosevelt that it might be just as easy to get $6,000,000 from RFC as $5,000,000, that "such a plan would have the advantage of keeping control of the railroad in the hands of its owners." Amiable Mr. Roosevelt promptly complied, redrafted his reorganization plan to exclude Mr. Prince, submitted it again to Jesse Jones...