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...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...
...Senator Caraway and other Democrats are inclined to laugh at items on the Republican tariff schedules. Another object of their laughter has been the flexible tariff (the clause in the Tariff Act whereby the President is authorized on recommendation by the Tariff Commission to increase or decrease specific tariffs by not more than 50%, so, as to equalize cost of production between the U. S. and principal competing countries). They point out that the President has increased the duty on certain grains and various minor products; that in spite of the Tariff Commission's recommendation, the President has declined...