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Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...
Jester: Not at all! They're keeping out Senator Brookhart and it's no inadvertence...
...Senator Brookhart defended himself: "No man can invite me to a dinner where crime is in evidence and say to me that because of his confidence as a host I shall conceal the crime. . . . That is the thing that makes trouble in this country . . . these infernal secret societies in high society. ... I want to say to members of the Senate, GET OUT OF THOSE BOOZE PARTIES. You do not need those hip flasks to enable you to do your duty here...
...next day Senator Brookhart hurried dutifully to the District Court House, appeared before the Grand Jury for 15 minutes to repeat his story. He paused on the way in to be photographed with U. S. District Attorney Leo A. Rover, thus helping to violate a court order against photographs in the building...
Also invited before the Grand Jury was Railman Loomis who appeared in Washington in no sweet mood. Said he: "You don't expect ME to discuss anything that happens at a private dinner, do you? You'll have to rely on the laboratory experience and smelling propensities of Senator Brookhart...