Word: brookharts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brookhart: ". . . Dinners given by Wall Street gentlemen for the purpose of greeting newly elected Senators...
...Senator Brookhart proceeded to describe a dinner at the Willard Hotel given by one Walter J. Fahey, Manhattan broker...
...this point Senator Howell's revelations were interrupted and the bright torch of Prohibition passed into the rugged hand of Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart. Utah's lank Smoot was on the point of defending the Prohibition corps when Senator Brookhart suddenly interjected: "I should like to ask the Senator from Utah if he ever saw any signs of bootleggers around any Wall Street conventions at any of the hotels here in Washington...
...kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers." When the doors were opened Chairman Alexander Legge announced his Board's first concrete achievement...
William Joseph Donovan (onetime intimate), Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Senators Borah, Brookhart, Frazier...