Word: brookharts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please correct your error regarding Smith Wildman Brookhart in TIME, Dec. 13 You say "The wild bull of the Senate will be back again in the 70th session, having made peace with the Iowa Republicans." A state paper expressed the facts more correctly as follows : "Smith Wildman Brookhart is home again in the Republican fold-it was done by moving the fold over to him." ERNEST WYKES...
...milder light from the cornhuskers' state. He is a better civil engineer and businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
...fortnight ago, word leaked out that Senator Robert M. LaFollette and the insurgent Republicans are planning a filibuster against appropriation bills in the 69th Congress in order to force a special session of the 70th. Last week Senator-elect Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa added his booming voice to the movement. Said he: "Since about a million farmers have lost their property or their homes during the last six years, and the vast majority of them are now facing disaster, the most speedy and drastic action is demanded. Anybody who thinks this battle can be won by whistling 'Yankee...
...Brookhart was in the Senate from 1922 to 1925. In Iowa young David W. Stewart, Republican, was elected without opposition to finish the term of the late Senator Cummins in the 69th Senate...
Smith Wildman Brookhart of lowa, snorting insurgent whom regular Republicans docilely indorse, is opposed by Claude R. Porter, Democrat, able lawyer. (Young David W. Stewart, Republican, onetime marine, has a clear path to election to the seat in the 69th Congress left vacant by Senator Cummins' death...