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...report went far and wide through the press. Mr. Smith Wildman Brookhart, newly nominated for the Senate in Iowa (TIME, June 14), had made a speech to the Iowa Federation of Labor at Mason City. He was reported as having advocated...
...polls opened no one was sure. Senator Cummins made a last minute radio speech from Washington declaring that he was doing everything he could for the farmers. Six progressive Senators, Norris, Hornell, Frazier Nye, La Follette, Shipstead, issued a manifesto urging Iowa to turn to their political kinsman, Smith Wildman Brookhart...
...second is Smith Wildman Brookhart, whom Iowa sent to the Senate in 1922, as a loud-speaking, bad-dressing, pseudo-hog-raising Progressive. The difference between the two is that Brookhart is still snorting?at Wall Street, at the Administration. He wants Iowans to know that he is the only pure-bred farmer bull snorting in political pastures. He snorted so loud in 1924 for LaFollette against Coolidge that he was beaten by a narrow margin for reelection. Only recently (TIME, April 19, CONGRESS) he was ousted from the Senate in favor of his opponent, Democrat Dan Steck, after...
...official count of the ballots in Iowa disclosed that in about 900,000 votes cast, Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart won reëlection over his Democratic opponent Dan. Steck by about 750 votes. Democrats prepared to contest the election...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart stalked to the polls. As he went, he made a gesture of defiance and contempt at Coolidge and Dawes. Everyone recognized that, on his native hearth, Mr. Brookhart was supreme. He was marked for victory...