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Better chicken stew than the old Brookhart boloney...
Nepotism also runs high in the Senate where blood relatives are listed as secretaries to Kentucky's Barkley and Logan, South Dakota's Bulow, Tennessee's McKellar, Minnesota's Schall, Delaware's Townsend, Florida's Trammell*, Iowa's Brookhart. Last week the case of Senator Brookhart was a large campaign issue in his State's Republican primary (June...
...principal opponent of a Brookhart renomination is Henry ("Himself") Field who operates in Shenandoah a large general store and a broadcasting station (KFNF). Using his radio to ballyhoo his goods Storekeeper Field sells seeds, prunes, typewriters, hams, shirts, overalls, shoes paints, tires, pigs et al. His bargain announcements over the air bring country crowds flocking from miles to Shenandoah, much to the dismay of shopkeepers elsewhere. Candidate Field has never been in politics before, counts on his rural customers to start...
...thick grey hair rumpled, his face twisted into a wry smile, Bear Brush announced: "I'm going to be shot when I get back to New York." Senator Brookhart: Have they got rackets like Al Capone up there? Mr. Brush: Al Capone is a piker compared to that racket...
...Senator Brookhart: You brought this country to the greatest panic in history...