Word: wildman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heralded by reports that he possessed only one speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed...
Married. Mrs. Ella C. Bond, 58, of Oshkosh, Wis., "Bluebird of the G. A. R.," niece of Civil War General Ambrose Everett Burnside; and Col. Ira R. Wildman, 85, Civil War drummer, of Danbury, Conn.; in Danbury...
...actual murder of Gerald Thompson by the State of Illinois. I wish to commend your action. Let TIME in every subsequent issue publish at least one photograph of an execution, until your readers with delicate stomachs do something about this nasty business of legalized State murder. . . . SAM G. WILDMAN Placerville, Calif...
Headlines splashed front pages. Businessmen rejoiced at the big Russian trade that would soon be theirs. Ex-Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, Russian-trade adviser of AAA, declared that as soon as adequate credits could be arranged, Russia would be in a position to buy $520,000,000 worth of U. S. goods every year. Said Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff who traveled from Moscow to Washington to conduct the negotiations that led up to recognition: "Enjoying the lowest foreign indebtedness in the world, the Soviet Union has the greatest capacity for absorbing the raw materials and products of other...
...Senators was Smith Wildman Brookhart than whom no banker-hater ever roared louder. But Iowa had not re-elected him to the Senate. This was his last chance...