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That slogan last week helped Henry Field, 61-year-old storekeeper and broadcaster of Shenandoah, to defeat Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Iowa by 46,000-odd primary votes. A political neophyte. Nominee Field was handsomely supported by Iowa farmers to whom he sold seed, overalls, "gents' " hosiery, dress goods, prunes, coffee, hymnals et al, farmers to whom he begins his intimate radio talks from his station KFNF each day with: "Howdy, folks. This is Henry Field talking, folks. It's Henry himself...
...which was neither a bull nor a bear, but a pig.* He could perceive that the committee's special attorney, aggressive Claude Raymond Branch of Providence, was irritating to the Senators; that Chairman Norbeck of South Dakota was impatient, Senator Glass of Virginia sarcastic, Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart belligerent...
Heartily in agreement with Senator Watson were Senators of less orthodox views on financial matters. Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart exclaimed that he would see to it that interstate transmission of shortsale quotations is prohibited. Apparently he was unaware that the Stock Exchange's machinery does not include anything which tells whether a seller of stock owns...
...ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will touch the public pocket nerve, it is the phase for which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly waited. Eminent in this group is Iowa's loud, intransigent Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart. Like Senators Norris, Nye, Howell, La Follette et al., he is ready to seize upon the Commission's disclosures and therefrom argue for stricter Federal regulation of interstate power. As the Commission's hearings started Phase II last week in a schoolroom atmosphere of charts and maps...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart, chunky, unbrushed, of Iowa, who loudly supported Herbert Hoover in 1928 only to denounce him just as loudly in 1929. Originator of many a tricky farm relief proposal, he affects unpolished manners, shuns a dress suit, shoots a marksman's rifle, suffers a nervous twitching of the face. Recently he has abandoned the pretense of an appalling ignorance...