Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death of Caraway...
Long had Senator Thaddeus Horatius? Caraway of Arkansas been bothered with a stone in the kidney. Fortnight ago he entered St. Vincent's Infirmary at Little Rock to have it cut out. Last week he was convalescing comfortably after the operation when an old friend, with a jug of cider, called on him at the hospital...
...friend came in. They talked and laughed. A half hour later Senator Caraway lay dead in his bed. A sudden blood clot in the coronary artery had killed...
Thus did the Senate lose its foremost sarcastigator, the Democrat whose tongue was like the lash of an Arkansas snake whip. The Caraway manner belied the Caraway mind. He used to slouch indolently in his Senate seat or pace the centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty...
Last year Senator Caraway slashed and cut at President Hoover until he won a thumping big relief fund for Arkansas drought sufferers. That came close to being his only constructive piece of legislation during his ten years in the Senate...