Brookhart
Brookhart names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Brookhart SMITH W. destructiveness
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SMITH W. destructiveness. A new national campaign against the pest was inaugurated at the boll weevil conference in Atlanta, Ga., February, 1922, when a $2,500,000 corporation was organized to carry on a five-year scientific war. He BOYDEN, ROLAND W., American lawyer and financier, was born at Beverly, Mass., October 18, 1863. He graduated from Harvard College, 1885, and from the Law School, 1888, being admitted to the bar the same year. practiced law in the city of Boston , and was also president of the Beverly Savings Bank. By appointment of President Wilson he became American representative on the Reparation Commission under the Treaty of Versailles, but was afterward withdrawn when the Senate failed to ratify the treaty. In May, 1921, he was reappointed by President Harding to sit on the Commission as unofficial observer. BRAZIL. In April, 1922, Dr. Arthur Bernardes was elected President after a closely disputed contest leading for a time to a critical situation . He was the candidate of the civil party as against the military elements of the country. On September 6, 1922 an international exposition was opened at Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the first centenary of Brazilian independence. The United States was represented by Secretary Hughes. In plans to strengthen the Brazilian navy, an arrangement has been made with the United States by which a number of American naval officers will serve as advisers for a period of four years. (Population figures): A synopsis of the census of September 1, 1920, issued in May, 1922, places the total population of Brazil at 30,635,605. The populations of Rio de the most important cities were: Janeiro, 1,157,873; Sao Paulo, 579,033; Sao Salvador, 283,422; Recife, 238,843; Belem, 236,402; Porto Alegro, 179,263 . BRITISH DEBT SETTLEMENT. (See FOREIGN AFFAIRS.)
Brookhart SMITH W., United States Senator from Iowa
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SMITH W., United States Senator from Iowa, was born in Scotland County, Missouri , February 2, 1869. He received his early education in the district schools, afterwards graduating from the Blo Bloomfield , Iowa, High School and the Southern Iowa Normal School. He was a teacher for a time , but law-offices. He later practiced law, having studied at home and in various law-offices. served in the Spanish-American War, on the Mexican border, and in the World War. In 1920 he made a strong run for the Republican nomination to the U. S. Senate on a platform of opposition to the Esch-Cummins Railway Act, and in 1922 gained the nomination and was elected by a large majority in spite of the opposition of many party leaders. BULGARIA. Following the World War the management of affairs was mostly in the hands of the agrarian party, with bitter opposition on the part of the bourgeois elements in the cities, particularly in Sofia. Conditions unfavorable to the economic restoration of the country led in 1922 to a demand from the Reparation Commission for control of the national resources and revenues in return for a three years' postponement of reparations payments, but Bulgaria refused to comply with the demand. A conscript labor law, adopted July 13, 1921, made all men between the ages of 20 and 50 and women between 16 and 50 liable to take part pa in public work for a certain period every C 1922-23.)
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Brookhart at his high point, elected to the Senate in 1922 "by a large majority in spite of the opposition of many party leaders." What followed was one of the strangest careers in Senate history: his apparent re-election in 1924 was contested, and in 1926 the Senate itself threw out the result and seated his Democratic opponent, Daniel F. Steck, instead - Brookhart then won the seat back later that same year. His farm-radical politics, and his habit of endorsing Democrats, kept him at odds with Iowa Republicans until he lost the 1932 primary; he died in 1944 and is now remembered mainly as a case study in Midwestern progressive insurgency and as a champion rifle shot who led the National Rifle Association. Note that the text above is a scanning jumble, with fragments of neighbouring entries on the boll weevil, Roland Boyden, Brazil and Bulgaria run into it.
Written for this edition, 2026.