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...desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed: I DO NOT FAVOR ANY DELAY...
Iowa. Democratic Senator Daniel Frederic Steck who votes more like a regular Republican than any other member of his party, is seeking renomination in the June 2 primary. His nemesis: insurgent Republican Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, his defeated rival in a 1924 Senate election contest, who has vowed that Senator Steck will not return to the Capitol if he (Brookhart) "has to turn Iowa upside down...
...Smith "Wildman" Brookhart might well be deported to Russia, and Iowa will be better off. Iowa City, Iowa...
Last week behind the Century Association's well-guarded doors there was more uncomfortable excitement, more nervous uneasiness, than any game of bridge ever produced. What disturbed the Association's calm was the fact that Iowa's Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, social tattler, no Century member, had risen in the Senate to declare...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart, U. S. Senator from Iowa, last week fulfilled a promise to himself and colleagues. He arose in the Senate and told all he had to tell about the "booze-party" at the Willard Hotel in Washington which he and other Senators attended three years ago (TIME...