Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delay and confusion caused. Outside of regular hearings there have been much buttonholing in corridors, much crowding around committee room doors, much pestering of legislators at homes, hotels, clubs. Many States require lobbyists to register as such, sometimes to pay fees. Not so in Washington. The late sarcastic Senator Caraway used to call the lobbyists "The Third House." Others have suggested that lobbyists be recognized and dignified as such, given a forum of their own in Washington, given rules & regulations and caused to function as a debating body in the Government where the private friends & foes of legislation could...
...Confirmed the appointment of Andrew William Mellon to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (see above). ¶ Debated direct Federal Unemployment Relief (see col. 3). ¶ Accepted the credentials of and administered the oath of office to Hattie Wyett Caraway of Arkansas, first woman ever elected to the Senate.? ¶ Received from Oklahoma's Thomas a resolution asking that the Foreign Relations Committee report from time to time on Far Eastern developments affecting U. S. life and property, d. Received from Washington's Jones a resolution prohibiting Army and Navy activity in States which...
...Last week the Caraway home, a Colonial building valued at $40.000. in the Washington suburb of Riverdale. Md., was placed on auction to satisfy a $22,500 mortgage...
...cold drizzly clay last week Democratic Arkansas did what no other State in the Union has ever done before. It elected a woman to the U. S. Senate. She is Hattie Wyett Caraway, the small, steady-eyed, straight-mouthed widow of Senator Thaddeus Horatius Caraway. Already sitting in the chamber by appointment of Governor Parnell, Mrs. Caraway did not bother to return to Arkansas to campaign against two feeble independents. So poverty-pinched was the election that it entirely lacked a Republican candidate. The first woman elected to the Senate will serve until March 3, 1933 when Governor Parnell...
...Hattic Caraway...