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Sweet opens campaign against Brookhart in Iowa
Des Moines February 13 Associated Press Burton E. Sweet former Iowa congressman formally opened his bid for the Republican US Senate nomination in a Lincoln birthday dinner address. He attacked Senator Smith W. Brookhart on six points including price fixing of wheat and government ownership of railroads. Sweet defended the Esch Cummins railway law and opposed world court recognition while urging a sound agricultural policy and opposition to mugwumpery.
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