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...Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...cold drizzly clay last week Democratic Arkansas did what no other State in the Union has ever done before. It elected a woman to the U. S. Senate. She is Hattie Wyett Caraway, the small, steady-eyed, straight-mouthed widow of Senator Thaddeus Horatius Caraway. Already sitting in the chamber by appointment of Governor Parnell, Mrs. Caraway did not bother to return to Arkansas to campaign against two feeble independents. So poverty-pinched was the election that it entirely lacked a Republican candidate. The first woman elected to the Senate will serve until March 3, 1933 when Governor Parnell...
Inheritance of office, common in the House, was unknown in the Senate until last week. To fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Thaddeus Horatius Caraway of Arkansas, Governor Harvey Parnell announced simply: "I have appointed Mrs. Caraway . . . because I feel she is entitled to the office held by her distinguished husband, who was my friend. . . . Mrs. Caraway is a most estimable woman, thoroughly capable and her service in the Senate will be an honor to the State...
...small Jonesboro home, surrounded by her three sons and flowers left over from the funeral. Short, maternal, with brown wavy hair and blue eyes, she has, after 29 years of married life, grown to resemble her husband, especially about the small tucked-in mouth, the narrow eyes. She and Thaddeus Caraway met at Dixon College, Tenn. They both taught school in rural Arkansas. For a honeymoon they went to New Orleans. While her Washington friends were last week proclaiming her witty and wise, she with tears in her eyes was disclaiming all political pretensions. Said...
...Died. Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, 60, U. S. Senator from Arkansas; of coronary occlusion (constriction of heart arteries), after an operation for kidney stone; in Little Rock...