Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime newshawks were keeping political score in the gallery: 30 Senators, nearly all regular Democrats, were voting "guilty" on every count; 26 Senators, the majority of them regular Republicans, were voting "not guilty" on every count. Mrs. Caraway was voting "guilty" with the Democratic regulars, Mrs. Long "not guilty," with the Republicans. The fate of Judge Ritter rested with the 28 Senators who were splitting their votes on the different counts. With the sixth count, another income tax charge, more of this group swung to vote for conviction...
...feelings should be wounded at the imputation that she might console herself so soon after the martyrdom of her husband. It was no less natural for the Hearst Press to report such a rumor about the liquid-eyed lady from Louisiana. For years her dowdy colleague, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, has sat alone and relatively neglected in the Senate. Now Senators leaving the floor frequently pause to pass the time of day with Mrs. Long. Senators...
...just won to serve out the remaining year of the late "Kingnsh's" term. Said Governor Noe: "This is the proudest moment of my life." Said Senator John H. Overton of Louisiana: "It is a just and beautiful tribute to the memory of Senator Long." Said Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkan sas: "It will be nice to have a woman's company in the Senate." Said Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond of New Orleans, longtime leader of Louisiana's embattled anti-Long women: "It no longer is an honor to go to the United States Senate...
...gesture of chivalry, the late Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, "Grand Old Lady of Georgia," was appointed in 1922 to a Senate term which lasted 22 hours. Mrs. Hattie Caraway was appointed in 1931 to serve out her deceased husband's unfinished term, later won her nomination & election for the following full term...
Senator Black is not a demagog, nor is he a statesman. Not until he took up investigations as a hobby was he able to capitalize to the full on his shrewdness and his talents. His interest in Muscle Shoals led him to aid the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway when that stoop-shouldered, sharp-witted little oldster was probing lobbies in 1929-30. And he was quick to detect the political profit for little Senators with big ears...