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With a ten-gallon hat stowed away in the luggage on his special train, President Roosevelt rolled out of Washington one midnight last week for a 4,000-mile swing through the Southwest. With him were Senator Joe Robinson, RFChairman Jesse Jones, Senator Hattie Caraway. Mrs. Roosevelt was to board the train at Memphis. Announced purpose of this "nonpolitical" trip was to attend and make speeches at three historical celebrations-Arkansas' Century of Statehood at Little Rock, the Texas Centennial at Dallas, the dedication of a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes...
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...