Who Owns the House?

The excitement this fall in Minnesota is that two families are trying to live in the same house.

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.

The new G.O.P. in Minnesota gave out no wild cheers over this sudden recruit. Young silo-shaped Governor Harold E. Stassen, architect...

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