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...Sample Senate bills calling for large outlays: $500,000,000 road building (Iowa's Brookhart), $500,000,000 River & Harbor development (Minnesota's Shipstead), $30,000,000 free wheat distribution by Federal Farm Board (Kansas' Capper), $50,000,000 increased War Veterans pension (Alabama's Black), $150,000,000 public works (Illinois' Glenn), $10,000.000 Mediterranean fruit fly relief (Florida's Trammel), $100,000,000 free jobless relief (Massachusetts' Walsh). A half dozen measures have been introduced in the House providing for $4,000,000,000 to cash soldier bonus certificates...
...extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed: I DO NOT FAVOR ANY DELAY FOR THE SAKE...
...where he likes to put his feet on his desk, drawl out his political discouragement at men and affairs. Driving his Willys-Knight motorcar is a diversion. Not interested in Society or socialite sport he goes to bed regularly at 10 p.m., sees his principal friends-Senators Borah, Johnson, Brookhart, LaFollette-mostly at the Capitol. He likes to listen to radio reports of baseball games, to smoke numerous cigars...
...years ago the Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...
Iowa. Democratic Senator Daniel Frederic Steck who votes more like a regular Republican than any other member of his party, is seeking renomination in the June 2 primary. His nemesis: insurgent Republican Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, his defeated rival in a 1924 Senate election contest, who has vowed that Senator Steck will not return to the Capitol if he (Brookhart) "has to turn Iowa upside down...