Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Around and about, in and out, hands in pockets, wandered gray-suited, round-shouldered Caraway of Arkansas, shrewd sarcastigator. He hates to sit down and seldom does so. This morning he was caught far from his desk, between two pages down in front, as the prayer began...
...Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas charged the Association with responsibility for defeat of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. The bankers denied it and refused Senator Caraway permission to further address the convention...
...Sore." Senator Caraway, balked by program committee, issued statements charging that "the farmers feel that the banking and industrial interests have prejudiced the leaders of the country, even the President of the United States against any relief for farmers." Peppery, he stormed and fretted; quit shortly, "sore" (said one Southern delegate) "as a hound dog with a briar...
...arrest absentees. Mr. Barry and five assistants scurried to telephones, told Senators to hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected. . . . Mr. Keyes is in bed, but says he will think it over. I think he was serious about that. . . . At Mr. McLean's residence we reached some one on the telephone who refused to give him the message. . . . Mr. Gooding...
...Washington, D. C., Senator Caraway of Arkansas opened his morning mail, found therein a check for $10. The sender congratulated Senator Caraway for his "magnificent speech" in behalf of William G. McAdoo, asked that he transmit the $10 to Mr. McAdoo's Presidential campaign managers. The check speedily went back to the sender with the words: "You are barking up the wrong tree." Senator Caraway, as everyone knows, is an enemy of Mr. McAdoo...