Word: caraways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more immediate interest than the "power trust" now is the elaborate and expensive "lobby" it maintained in Washington to escape a Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...
...obtain men of all political beliefs and interests. All men who may be interested are requested to write to G. W. Smith '29, secretary. The following political figures will address the club sometime during the next few months: Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas; Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York; Senator Carter Glass of Virginia; and Assistant Professor W. L. Elliot of the department of History, Government and Economics...
...National Grange and Senator Caraway of Arkansas want export debentures. The latter would be negotiable receipts issued by marketing agencies to farmers who market their crops abroad. Senator Caraway's suggestion is that the debentures should be used by the crop-exporters to buy imports duty-free, thus settling the tariff argument. The National Grange urges a tariff upon corn imported to the U. S. from South America...
...when small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana, Chairman of the Committee on Committees, arose to ask that the new committee be appointed orally, he was greeted by the mocking drawl of the chief of the Democrats' sarcasm department, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. With considerable prompting from Senator Caraway of Arkansas, his twin wit, Mr. Harrison undertook to remind everyone how just such "radicals" as the present "progressives" had been "read out of G. O. P. ranks" three years ago (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924) and denied any Senate committee places at all. Now, behold, the "progressives" had been handsomely...
...prevent hypocrisy"-a modification of the McNary-Haugen farm-relief plan, substituting for that plan's equalization fee an exchange of export debentures for negotiable customs certificates which would permit farmers to import dutiable merchandise duty-free.-Democrat Caraway of Arkansas...