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...Senator Brookhart: Do you think the rules you are constantly citing are enforced or evaded...
...neither a bull nor a bear, but a pig.* He could perceive that the committee's special attorney, aggressive Claude Raymond Branch of Providence, was irritating to the Senators; that Chairman Norbeck of South Dakota was impatient, Senator Glass of Virginia sarcastic, Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart belligerent...
...Senate, the great majority on private matters for aggrieved constituents. Michigan's Senator Couzens wanted a railroad probe while Senators Capper of Kansas and Hastings of Delaware wanted short selling scrutinized. Senator McKellar of Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard of Texas. Senator Hull of Tennessee wanted to repeal tariff flexibility. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief...
Heartily in agreement with Senator Watson were Senators of less orthodox views on financial matters. Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart exclaimed that he would see to it that interstate transmission of shortsale quotations is prohibited. Apparently he was unaware that the Stock Exchange's machinery does not include anything which tells whether a seller of stock owns...
...been asked to spend seventeen billion dollars more than it did, largely by "group and sectional interests" and "organized minorities." Observers thought he had in mind such proposals as a $5,000,000,000 "Prosperity Loan," advocated by Publisher William Randolph Hearst and supported by Insurgent Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa. Said the President: "Unless there is a general recognition that this is no time for such activities, these same pressures will again arise. It is important that