Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Little McClellan, 46, Arkansas, a former Congressman who called himself a New Dealer "but no rubber stamp." Intense John McClellan tried to get into the Senate in 1938 by tackling the machine Hattie Caraway had built around Arkansas's U.S. Marshals, had better luck this year when the State's other Senator, John E. Miller, resigned to take a Federal judgeship...
...meek enough. His best friends said that for all his wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long labors for Australian labor, he lacked the guts and drive of a first-class leader. He was to Australian politics what William Edgar Borah, the late Thaddeus H. Caraway and other Senate gadflies were to the U.S.: a born oppositionist who talked a great government, but seemed to shy from the job of running...
...face appeared in Congress last week-and a pretty one. Katharine Edgar Byron was the fifth Congressional widow to take her seat in the 77th Congress. (Altogether, nine Congressmen wear skirts.) Unlike her distinguished widowed colleagues, Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Margaret Smith, Frances Bolton, Mrs. Byron did not slide easily into her late husband's place. She won it the hard way-by licking a veteran, C.I.0.-backed opponent...
...previous legislative contribution had been a bill to send unemployed Negroes back to Africa, startled the Senate by offering a resolution to end the unwritten rule that "female attaches of Senatorial staffs" (i.e., Senators' secretaries and clerks) be not allowed on the floor. Statesman Bilbo, whose Colleague Mrs. Caraway already has the privilege herself by virtue of her Senatorial office, hinted as delicately as he could that present conditions cast doubt on senatorial "justice and chivalry...
Thus Mr. Hatch's foes included Virginia's Glass & Byrd, bosses of The Old Dominion's tightly controlled courthouse crowd; Mississippi's Bilbo & Harrison, Alabama's Bankhead & Hill; Arkansas's Caraway & Miller, South Carolina's Byrnes & Smith, Nevada's Pittman, Oklahoma's Lee & Thomas-all of them members of powerful State organizations, and therefore mighty fighters for the status...