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Deserters. First to square off at the President's farm program was florid, blinking Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. A vociferous champion of radical farm measures, Senator Brookhart had pleaded the Hoover cause in 200 stump speeches last autumn. He had shouted to rural audiences that the Republican candidate was "progressive" on farm legislation. "Progressive" in those days meant much more than it does...
Last week Senator Brookhart called the Senate's attention to quotations from Mr. Hoover's campaign speeches, contrasted them with his official statements as President...
...Brookhart, Blaine, Borah, Frazier, Howell, Johnson, Dill, La Folle"?. Shipstead, Nye, Wheeler, all come within the category. There is little intellectual or moral fibre in any of them. They pother, trim and hedge...
...Brookhart−"simple man that he is, glories in the resultant public attention...
...white front door in S Street, passed many people-friends bearing advice, advisers looking for friendship-Indiana's Watson, long of leg and small of eye; Mellon the benign; square-jawed Borah and mouse-grey Good, North Dakota's boyish Nye, Iowa's heavy-footed Brookhart. They talked of many things to the Next President and went away holding their tongues...