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...whimpered at the gun salute, rolled over on the grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously at the parting volleys, he was led away quietly at the end-still the best-behaved of Roosevelt pets (predecessors nipped ex-Senator Hattie Caraway and wolfed down a dozen plates of ham & eggs from the servants' dining room...
...Rebecca Felton of Georgia had been appointed to fill out an unexpired term of two days. Other Caraway firsts: first woman to chairman a Senate committee (Enrolled Bills), first to conduct a Senate committee hearing, first to preside over the Senate, first to serve as Senior Senator from a state...
...years Hattie Wyatt Caraway sat quietly in the U.S. Senate, doing nobody any harm. The small, 66-year-old widow never seemed to change; she always sat still and demure in her billowy Victorian black dress; when spring came, she simply added a white embroidered collar. Her habits and mind were simple and domestic. Outside "Miss Hattie's" door in the mahogany-&-marble Senate Office Building stood a little row of milk bottles. While her male colleagues bellowed and fumed and passed fateful legislation, she sat and worked crossword puzzles; often just sat listening, for hours. When she voted...
...strong interests were, in the main, legacies from her husband, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, famed for his sharp nose and waspish tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator...
...quite enough to give him a majority over all his four opponents. To win the Democratic nomination-and, with it, sure election-he still must beat the potent Adkins machine, perhaps reinforced by support from defeated candidates, in the runoff primary next week. But the political career of Hattie Caraway, who ran a bad fourth, was over...