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...Iowa Farmers' Union, in convention at Des Moines, by a resolution passed immediately after an hour-and-a-half Hooverizing address by U. S. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart...
...Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. His method of transferring from the defunct Farm Revolt to the triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem...
...Alternative choices might have been Professors Frank William Taussig or William Zebina Ripley of Harvard, Irving Fisher of Yale, Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton, or Murray Shipley Wildman of Stanford, to name but five...
...Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head...
Please correct your error regarding Smith Wildman Brookhart in TIME, Dec. 13 You say "The wild bull of the Senate will be back again in the 70th session, having made peace with the Iowa Republicans." A state paper expressed the facts more correctly as follows : "Smith Wildman Brookhart is home again in the Republican fold-it was done by moving the fold over to him." ERNEST WYKES...