Word: brookharts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brookhart: Oh yes, the Senator was there...
...Brookhart: I saw the Senator there. . . . The flasks, as I remember, were under the table and all one had to do was to reach down and get his flask and put it in his hip pocket. The Senator did not do that. I know. He told...
Thus were illustrated on the Senate floor two predominant Dry attitudes toward Prohibition: the Dry who considers it his duty to tell all he sees; the Dry whose social sensibility keeps him silent. Senator Brookhart was variously hailed throughout the land as one who (although two years late) had done a civic service, or as one who had accepted hospitality and then flouted its rules. Senator Smoot, similarly, was viewed either as a dry-voting hypocrite who had kept mum, or as a gentleman who had not gone out of his way to impose his public character on a private...
Responsible for Prohibition prosecutions in the District of Columbia is District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Part of the Brookhart outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward...
...question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota's Frazier, South Dakota's Norbeck, Iowa's Brookhart, South Carolina's Smith, Caraway of Arkansas, Heflin of Alabama. Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, sat back and let his colleagues have their fun. Many a witness might have been dismayed. But Alexander H. Legge was not dismayed...