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Henrik Shipstead, 45, Senator from Minnesota, a second-generation Norwegian, stands 6 ft. 1 in. in his stocking feet. A mighty, clean-cut Viking, both in demeanor and politics, is he. As a young dentist, he read economics and sociology. In 1916, politics claimed him. Twice defeated, for Congress by Andrew J. Volstead and for Governor by J. A. O. Preus, Mr. Shipstead climbed into his Ford in 1922 and snorted on to Washington ahead of Frank B. Kellogg, who drove a Pierce Arrow in that Senate race. On arrival, Mr. Shipstead was put on the Foreign Relations Committee...
...young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also had to be fed. . . . There was one other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else that I could wish it upon...
...difficult to understand how the Vare machine has gotten away with so much graft regularly for many years and remained unexposed. City machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on the other hand, appears to be the most flagrantly vicious in the country. One wonders what the Committee of Seventy in supposedly civic reform league organized several decades ago, has been doing all this time to justify its existence...
Winning all their five scheduled games, the Dark Horses have become the champions of the Touch Football League which closed its season last week. The Pleiades, the Standish Storks, and the Juggernauts, all with clean plates, follow in that order. Postponed games helped these teams to keep their percentage high, as the Pleiades played only two games, the Storks, three, while the Juggernauts only took the field once...
Opening its season with a 4 to 1 victory over the Harvard Club, the University squash team swept into second place in the Class A competition of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association. The Boston Athletic Association, by scoring a clean sweep over the Union Beat Club, stands first in the League at present...