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Minnesota's Shipstead...
Protests against rate-upping began to pour in upon President Hoover and the I. C. C. The U. S. Fisheries Association, the League for Independent Political Action, the Northwest Retail Coal Dealers Association, the Wyoming Stock Dealers Association and Senators Caraway, Brookhart, Shipstead were among the first protestants. The National League of Commission Merchants said that the roads last year got $268,000.000 for hauling 973.605 carloads of fresh fruit and vegetables that sold for $489.000.000, warned that 15% rate increase would raise fruit and vegetable prices...
There might have been an end of the case of Davis & Michel but for the fact that Partner Thomas ("Tom") Davis was a stanch political friend of blind Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's lone Republican Senator. (Senator-Dentist Henrik Shipstead is Farmer-Labor.) Lawyer Davis it was who argued and won Senator Schall's contest for his Senate seat in 1924. Last autumn eloquent "Tom" Davis, while supporting Farmer-Labor candidates otherwise, supported Republican Senator Schall for reelection. Mr. Schall won-and promptly, as he had publicly promised to do, recommended "Tom" Davis' partner, Ernest A. Michel...
...Minnesota also has the first and only Farmer-Labor U. S. Senator, Dentist Henrik Shipstead...
...Sample Senate bills calling for large outlays: $500,000,000 road building (Iowa's Brookhart), $500,000,000 River & Harbor development (Minnesota's Shipstead), $30,000,000 free wheat distribution by Federal Farm Board (Kansas' Capper), $50,000,000 increased War Veterans pension (Alabama's Black), $150,000,000 public works (Illinois' Glenn), $10,000.000 Mediterranean fruit fly relief (Florida's Trammel), $100,000,000 free jobless relief (Massachusetts' Walsh). A half dozen measures have been introduced in the House providing for $4,000,000,000 to cash soldier bonus certificates...