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...Fool. "There may be smarter men than me but they ain't in Louisiana." Huey Long likes to brag. His enemies will agree that he is no fool but they will also contend that his smartness is far from admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity...
Last week appeared an 89-page supplement issue of the Record (cost $5,262) which, among other things, contained: 1) $522 worth of unemployment data from Colorado's Senator Costigan; 2) $319 worth of speeches by outsiders from Iowa's Senator Brookhart; 3) $145 worth of tax views from Illinois Representative Keller; 4) $116 worth of "The American Post-office in Colonial Days" from New York's Representative Mead; 5) $520 worth of "Pressing National Questions" from Wisconsin's Representative Nelson; 6) $290 worth of ''Scots and Scottish Influence in Congress" from South Dakota's Senator Norbeck; 7) $58 worth...
That slogan last week helped Henry Field, 61-year-old storekeeper and broadcaster of Shenandoah, to defeat Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Iowa by 46,000-odd primary votes. A political neophyte. Nominee Field was handsomely supported by Iowa farmers to whom he sold seed, overalls, "gents' " hosiery, dress goods, prunes, coffee, hymnals et al, farmers to whom he begins his intimate radio talks from his station KFNF each day with: "Howdy, folks. This is Henry Field talking, folks. It's Henry himself...
Famed throughout Iowa is the Field chicken stew.* During the campaign it was made up in great cauldrons and served to all comers. Senator Brookhart attempted to deride Mr. Field as the "chicken stew politician" but the voters liked chicken stew, smacked their lips. Mr. Field attacked Senator Brookhart as a nepotist (TIME, May 30), accused him of being off on Chautauqua circuits when he should have been sitting in the Senate earning his keep...
...Brookhart defeat was the first of any sitting Senator in 1932. For six years the chunky, sharpshooting Irregular from Iowa had roared & ranted against Wall Street and Big Business. Republican conservatives in the Senate were pleased that his rasping voice would soon be stilled. His Progressive colleagues smelled a plot in the fact that his opposition was divided among five candidates. Senator Brookhart might, they hinted, even run as an independent this autumn...