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Senator Black is not a demagog, nor is he a statesman. Not until he took up investigations as a hobby was he able to capitalize to the full on his shrewdness and his talents. His interest in Muscle Shoals led him to aid the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway when that stoop-shouldered, sharp-witted little oldster was probing lobbies in 1929-30. And he was quick to detect the political profit for little Senators with big ears...
...first time in four years may in time permit the U. S. to regain a $150,000,000 Cuban export market, now almost vanished. Better prices for shellac and pepper, favorites of boisterous Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, better prices for jute, hemp, antimony, caraway seed, balm of Gilead and scores of other minor world commodities will eventually result in a rising volume of international trade...
ADAMS GEORGE REYNOLDS ASHURST HATCH RUSSELL BACHMAN HAYDEN SMITH BONE LONERGAN THOMAS BULOW LONG (Okla.) CARAWAY McADOO THOMAS CLARK McCARRAN (Utah) COPELAND McGlLL WALSH COSTIGAN McKELLAR WHEELER DILL NEELY DUFFY OVERTON...
...Jonesboro, Ark. (pop.: 10,326), home of Senator Hattie Caraway, two years ago it took National Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, to avert a pitched battle between two factions of Baptists (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). Later two resolute evangelists each sought to become fulltime pastor of Jonesboro's Baptist Tabernacle. Last September Rev. Joe Jeffers and Rev. Dale S. Crowley were arrested for fistfighting. When Evangelist Jeffers installed a follower of his as Tabernacle janitor, Evangelist Crowley countered by obtaining a court order conceding the Tabernacle's pastorate to himself. Flourishing the order he entered...
...character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...