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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...
...still being held on the plan, Minneapolis citizens got excited, began raising a war chest to fight the M. & St. L.'s dismemberment, asked Congress to go to bat for the integrity of the road. The Senate voted a subcommittee investigation under Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Hendrik Shipstead...
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...
...Government will lend $50,000,000 in the coming year, $40,000,000 for each of the nine years thereafter for rural electrification. Night before that he had his most pleasant conference of the week. With Felix Frankfurter at his side, he welcomed Senators Norris, Wagner, Minton. Wheeler, Schwellenbach, Shipstead, La Follette. They assured the Press afterward that it was nothing but a friendly chat. So friendly was the gathering of nine arch-liberals that it lasted from 8:30 o'clock in the evening until after midnight...
Hence, this week the U. S. Senate sees Elmer Austin Benson take a place beside Minnesota's Hendrik Shipstead as No. 2 Farmer-Laborite Senator. Benson's age: 40. His manner: mild, cautious. His religion: Lutheran. His disposition: silent Norwegian determination. His habits : abstemious. His appearance: well-groomed. His instinct: righteous conservatism in everything except politics. Until two years ago he was a bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later...