Word: caraways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the leaders are incompetent but that they are not competent enough. This is a year in which Senators and Representatives are elected. The Senators who this year come up for re-election were elected in 1920 in a Republican landslide. The Democrats among them are Underwood of Alabama, Caraway of Arkansas, Fletcher of Florida, George of Georgia, Broussard of Louisiana, Overman of North Carolina, Smith of South Carolina? all from the solid South. The Democrats have not a chance of losing one of their seats, but the Republicans have seats which may be lost to Democrats this year...
...week exploded: "It is the grossest piece of effrontery for this unknown man from Texas, whom no one ever heard of, to seek to show that Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that no one ever would have heard of but for his boot-licking proclivities...
...bill which smacks of the most reactionary type of obscurantism has recently been presented to Congress by Senator Caraway. It forbids ambassadors cabinet ministers, secretaries or confidential associates of Presidents from publishing information concerning their official service. under penalty of a $1000 fine. Evidently designed to prevent the recurrence of such revelations as the House Memoirs, now appearing in the Boston Globe and the New York Herald Tribune, the proposed law would not only handicap future historical research but would deprive the public of correct knowledge of events with which their welfare is intimately connected...
...Senator Caraway: "Words...
...Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman...