Word: rifleshot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...
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