Word: shipstead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota Republicans firmly beat down the bustling attempt by tall, mellow Senator Henrik Shipstead, who moved into their house two years ago from the old Farmer-Labor Party, to set himself up as head man in place of able young Governor Harold E. Stassen. Last week's primary was a whopping defeat for Senator Shipstead's men: renominated by big margins were both Governor Stassen and his close friend, Joseph Hurst Ball, the ex-newspaperman whom Stassen appointed to the Senate in 1940. With the Farmer-Labor Party on the skids and the Democrats scarcely heard from, Stassen...
Senator Henrik Shipstead is a tall and mellow fellow, has spent 19 years in the Senate by mastering the ancient political trick of keeping both ears on the ground at once. In 1940 his overdeveloped ears gave him a warning and forthwith Henrik Shipstead moved out of the old Farmer-Labor Party, and became a Republican...
This summer the Governor noticed that the visitors were taking over all the best rooms and trying to remodel the upstairs. In fact Senator Shipstead, no amateur architect himself, was planning to tear down the whole house and put up a new one, in which he had the master bedroom and Messrs. Stassen, Ball and friends had no rooms...
...Shipstead had his own candidate: for the seat of Joe Ball, he backed Walter K. Mickelson, publisher of the New Ulm (pop. 8,743) Journal, who began campaigning by promising to vote as Senator Shipstead did on all matters in the Senate...
Courageous Joe Ball, who campaigned aggressively against neutral thinking many months before Pearl Harbor, and Governor Stassen, who has revived the G.O.P. in one of the few States where it has made a major comeback, looked as if he could handle Shipstead's stooges...