Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Citizens' Councils have exerted no concerted effort; they have no statewide organization, no overall policy. At one small-town Rotary meeting Citizens' Councillors present were asked for a show of hands. More than two-thirds of the Rotarians admitted membership in the C.C. Said William J. Caraway, mayor of upstate Leland (pop. 5,000): "We are trying a peaceful and intelligent approach to a very difficult problem. We aren't Ku Kluxers, but if we fail, a Klan-type group will surely follow...
...seven: Georgia's Democrat Rebecca Latimer Felton, who served for two days in 1922; Arkansas' Democrat Hattie Caraway, who was appointed to succeed her husband in 1931, later was elected three times; Louisiana's Democrat Rose Long, who served a year after her husband, Huey, was assassinated in 1935; Alabama's Democrat Dixie Bibb Graves, appointed for five months in 1937; South Dakota's Republican (Miss) Gladys Pyle, elected for two months in 1938; South Dakota's Republican Vera C. Bushfield, who succeeded her husband for three months in 1948; Maine's Republican...
Died. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, 72, first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate;* in Falls Church, Va. Widow of eloquent, acid-tongued Senator (1921-31) Thaddeus Horatius Caraway of Arkansas, she was appointed to his seat by Governor Harvey Parnell, got elected to full terms in '32 and '38. She sat quietly in the Senate for 13 years, always dressed in black, made about one speech a year, voted the straight New Deal line...