Word: brookharts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pummeled the achy joints of the Senate G. O. P. Surely, he said, Secretary Adams did not mean to include in his list Senator Borah, who had "rendered greater service to the Republican party in the campaign and contributed more to its victory" than Herbert Hoover himself. Senator Brookhart, of all Republicans one of the least Regular, asked if Secretary Adams was not once himself "a distinguished insurgent in Massachusetts...
...Senator Brookhart: "In his [Hoover's] message to Congress there is no method pointed out for a solution except loans to co-operatives...
...Senator Brookhart: "This is where the price-fixing proposition comes in and that dogma of price-fixing now rises up to nullify the pledge the President made, the one that perhaps influenced more farmers than any other in the campaign...
...Senator Brookhart: "This Senate Bill gives it no arm to buy and sell the surpluses of farm products . . . cuts out the very pledge made by the President so distinctly...
Tactics. Despite Senator Brookhart and friends, however, President Hoover's opposition to the Senate bill began to show results. Support of the debenture plan began to crumble. Informal Senate polls predicted its probable defeat. Its advocates schemed how they could transfer it from the farm bill to the tariff bill, explaining that its location there would be more logical. In the tariff bill they thought it would muster more House support, would be harder for the President to veto. Nebraska's Norris drafted an amendment to reduce the bounty on crops over-produced...