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...dealings with the Senate were the most difficult, the least successful. It took, he realized, a politician to get along with politicians and there his predecessor had had a distinct advantage over him. The men who campaigned the hardest for him?Iowa's Brookhart, Idaho's Borah?were now his chief critics. The apparent uncertainty of his stand on tariff rates had become a standing Democratic joke, in spite of his careful explanation that it was not his duty to legislate on such matters. Some of his friends were urging him to exhibit a new and bold leadership, to carry...
...change its ways on economic questions. The Senate was shocked at his passionate use of the word "revolution." Senator Norris predicted that the Hughes appointment would become an issue in the next campaign, called it "Banquo's ghost come back to plague" the G. O. P. Senator Brookhart babbled of more Constitutional Amendments to restrict the Supreme Court...
Centurians were mostly shocked into silence at the Brookhart charge. They either denied liquor drinking at their club or refused, when interviewed, to say anything, on the ground that their club enjoyed the same private sanctity as their home. Not a few observers, however, were ready to believe that tattletale Senator Brookhart had been the butt of a simple hoax...
That everyone knows it but BROOKHART...
...Debate on Prohibition Enforcement between Representative Fiorello H. LaGuardia (Wet) of New York and Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Dry) of Iowa, under auspices of Cleveland Advertising Club, in Cleveland...