Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizen Stassen did a little politicking on his own. In rapid-fire interviews he: 1) praised General MacArthur's occupation policy; 2) came out for universal military training; 3) said he would not support isolationist G.O.P. Senator Henrik Shipstead for re-election next year; 4) hoped he could liberalize the G.O.P. Then he retired to catch up on his reading, before beginning a speech-making tour...
When the vote came, it was an anticlimax. Only North Dakota's lone-wolf William Langer and Minnesota's tall, grey Henrik Shipstead voted against it. The ayes: 35 Republicans, 53 Democrats and one Progressive. For a historic step there was no cheering, no demonstration. The gallery crowd went away quietly...
After five days Chairman Connally called a halt on the hearings, called for a vote. Result: 21 to 1 for approval (California's Hiram Johnson was the lone dissenter; Minnesota's Henrik Shipstead did not vote...
...final vote: 85 yes, 5 no, with 6 absent. (If all had been present, the final vote would have been 90-to-6.) Against the Resolution: the Midwest's triumvirate of old-style isolationists, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, North Dakota's William Langer, Wisconsin's Robert La Follette, North Carolina's Reynolds, Montana's Wheeler (who had supported the League until 1923); and Hiram Johnson...
...time, only 24 definitely committing themselves in favor of the proposal. The Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution, substantially the same as the above measure, faces an additional obstacle in the formidable machinations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which includes Champ Clark, Hiram Johnson, Capper, LaFollette, Vandenberg, Nye and Shipstead on its roster...