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...division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bill designed to aid farmers in forming and operating co-operative enterprises. In the Senate with an election coming on, and with the dissatisfaction registered by the farmers two weeks ago by the nomination of onetime Senator Brookhart and the defeat of Senator Cummins, there were many Senators who felt impelled to take up the Haugen bill to satisfy the farmers...
...opened no one was sure. Senator Cummins made a last minute radio speech from Washington declaring that he was doing everything he could for the farmers. Six progressive Senators, Norris, Hornell, Frazier Nye, La Follette, Shipstead, issued a manifesto urging Iowa to turn to their political kinsman, Smith Wildman Brookhart...
...forgotten when the polls opened; then even the blind could read. By the time returns from half the state were in Mr. Brookhart was leading by 20,000 votes...
...outcome of the primary with Brookhart nominated has two results...
...Republican state of Iowa will have no regular Republican in the Senate after next March, but instead will have Senator Steck (Democrat) and Senators Brookhart or Claude Porter (who carried off the Democratic nomination in the primary); the veteran Senator Cummins will retire after 18 years in the Senate...