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What gave rise to these thoughts by Vice President Curtis was evidence dug up by the special Senate committee, headed by Iowa's Senator Brookhart investigating Southern patronage, to the effect that postal workers were going about secretly booming their chief for the next vice-presidential nomination. They emphasized the great friendship between President Hoover and "General" Brown, pointed out that Mr. Curtis would be 72 in 1932, recalled his pre-convention hostility to Herbert Hoover in 1928. What gave these stories a substance of reality was the fact that "General" Brown has been deputized by President Hoover to handle...
...Senator Brookhart soon told the stories to Vice President Curtis whose great good friend he is. He wanted to take the floor to denounce "General" Brown for carrying on a subterranean vice-presidential campaign. But Mr. Curtis dissuaded him. The Vice President let it be known through his friends that he would not lift a finger for renomination. "General" Brown's friends pooh-poohed the Brookhart yarns, insisted Mr. Brown would not take the Vice-Presidency nomination if it were offered...
...Smith "Wildman" Brookhart might well be deported to Russia, and Iowa will be better off. Iowa City, Iowa...
...drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals of my fellow Senators." Iowa's Senator Brookhart, arch-tattler, shouted his determination of learning the S. O. B. customers of Cassidy and Goldberg...
Last week saw the beginning of a significant movement in the Senate for another Prohibition investigation. Unlike others, it was sponsored by Drys. Its proponents were Nebraska's Senator Norris, Idaho's Senator Borah, Montana's Senator Wheeler, Iowa's Senator Brookhart. Senator Norris, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had offered a resolution for that committee to inquire into the whole wide field of Prohibition enforcement, to study even its enforceability, with a view to remedial legislation. Behind this Dry movement was a dissatisfaction with the secret work of the National Law Enforcement Commission and its recommendations. Some...