Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Caraway and other Democrats are inclined to laugh at items on the Republican tariff schedules. Another object of their laughter has been the flexible tariff (the clause in the Tariff Act whereby the President is authorized on recommendation by the Tariff Commission to increase or decrease specific tariffs by not more than 50%, so, as to equalize cost of production between the U. S. and principal competing countries). They point out that the President has increased the duty on certain grains and various minor products; that in spite of the Tariff Commission's recommendation, the President has declined...
...Senator Caraway (Democrat): "He disclosed that he was almost as lacking in a knowledge of the rules of the Senate and Constitution of the United States as he was lacking in good taste?almost but not quite...
...course Washington chuckled. One of the Senatorial wits-from the press reports, one could gauge rather accurately that he was Senator Caraway-suggested that this jiggling steed should be called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...Senators measured their stature on the floor of the Senate, comparing the extent to which they were sons of the soil. Quoth Senator Caraway, drawling Democrat from Arkansas...
...Caraway stuck his hands into his customary pockets and, eyeing the tailored vestments of his opponent, drawled: "Well, the farmers I knew didn't wear long-tailed coats and white vests...