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...publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, and a fine delegation from Congress, including Col. Edward Halsey, pompous but popular secretary of the Senate, and Senators Tydings, Dieterich, Walsh, Barkley, Radcliffe, Copeland, Duffy, Gerry. The only political outsider present was Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead who, though a Farmer-Laborite, is a crack duck hunter...
...efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously rose, stalked out of the chamber, returned when the ceremony was over...
...Green Bay, over Republican Robert Simmons after a series of ten public debates; in Nebraska. Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg over Democrat Frank A. Picard, descendant of French acrobats, who accused his opponent of trying to walk a tightrope on the New Deal; in Michigan. Farmer-Laborite Senator Henrik Shipstead for his third term; in Minnesota. Republican-Democrat-Progressive-Commonwealth Hiram Johnson, over a lone Socialist; in California. Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland over an "Arrow-collar" Republican and Socialist Norman Thomas; in New York. Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler over Republican George M. Bourquin, a onetime Federal judge...
Minnesota. The Republicans were hoping to slip to victory while an argument went on between the Farmer-Laborites headed by Senator Shipstead and Governor Olson and the Democrats as to who had support of the New Deal. Emil Hurja, Boss Farley's right-hand man, last week visited Minnesota and announced that the Administration was solidly behind the Democratic ticket-Einar Hoidale for Senator, John Regan for Governor. Hardly had Mr. Hurja got back to Washington, however, before President Roosevelt, who had dealt more than kindly with Messrs. Shipstead and Olson, announced that he was not taking sides...
Farmer-Labor's blatant Governor Olson, who talks more radically then he acts, easily won renomination with approximately 75,000 more votes than he polled in 1932's primary. Farmer-Labor's softspoken, duck-hunting dentist, Senator Henrik Shipstead, was seeking renomination against Representative Francis ("Only Ex-Convict In Congress") Shoemaker. While the dignified, gentle Farmer-Laborite Senator remained in Washington until Congress adjourned, made no campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick...