Word: thad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caraway was born in Missouri 60 years ago. His father, a Confederate veteran, was murdered in a back-country feud. Young Thad did farm work at 7, sweated as a railroad section hand, sold patent medicines, taught school. Later he studied law. In 1912 he was elected to the House of Representatives where he served three quiet, inconspicuous terms. Not until he came to the Senate did his quality as a political gadfly on the broad complacent back of the G. O. P. elephant become apparent. A friendly, amiable man out of politics, he shunned Washington Society, put two sons...