Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pains to remind people that this dredging, though begun among slushy millions in Pennsylvania, would be extended to "every State in the union." The next state will be Illinois. The committee will repair to Chicago this month to plumb charges made last week by busy-buzzing Senator Thaddeus Caraway that three or more millions were spent on candidates...
...Washington, to which he hopes to return next March. He was there, he said, in the interest of farm relief legislation. Availing himself of the privilege of a former Senator, he went into the Senate Chamber, was cordially greeted. He got to talking in one corner with Senators Walsh, Caraway, and Jones (of New Mexico), all Democrats, while Senator Kendrick of Wyoming was making a speech. Something very amusing must have passed among the four, for Senator Caraway poked Mr. Brookhart in the ribs and they all burst out laughing. Mr. Dawes rapped for order...
...Coolidge journeyed to the suburban home of the Postmaster General to attend a luncheon of the Senate Ladies' Club. Luncheon was served on small tables in the garden with Mrs. New, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Moses, Mrs. Wadsworth, Mrs. Caraway, Mrs. Bayard, Mrs. Bingham as hostesses. ¶ An enterprising Vermont manufacturer endeavored to gain publicity for his firm by sending two complete sets of golf clubs to the White House, one for the President, the other for Mrs. Coolidge. It is well known that the President does not play nor does Mrs. Coolidge...
...Caraway: "The Senator is a very able lawyer. Can my friend Pepper now sue the people who got his money and did not deliver, and recover? He ought to have some kind of forum where he can get his money's worth...
...Judiciary Committee; and one of the new Progressives, Brookhart, is going to try to displace him. Ah, and do you see this large face and figure advancing? That is Heflin, who used to be chief demagog of the Democratic party, but his voice seems to have grown tired, and Caraway, with his low sarcastic drawl, twits him. This neat little man is Moses, one of the Republican irreconcilables-quite a wit in his way. His speeches are usually short, a sentence or two, delivered from the back of the chamber. His barbed arrows used almost always to go straight...