Word: caraway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colored Ford station wagon, Fulbright plans to make at least 40 speeches by mid-December, before audiences ranging from the Altrusa Club of Little Rock to the United Church Women of Fort Smith. The reason for his urgency: Fulbright faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted...
...Cabinet member. Mary Teresa Norton went to Congress on the insistence of New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, served with distinction for 26 years (once. when a colleague referred to her as a lady, Mrs. Norton snapped: "I'm no lady. I'm a member of Congress!"). Hattie Caraway of Arkansas reached the Senate through widowhood, appointed to serve out the term of her husband, Thaddeus Caraway, and won re-election with the help of Huey Long, who brought his sound truck upriver from Louisiana and persuaded "Miss Hattie" to put aside her bright clothes for more poignant widow...