Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" and then TIME remarks, ". . . active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year to secure Congressional favors include the following. . . . Motorists. The American Automobile Association, whose special pleader is Alexander E. Johnson, failed to block a Senate increase in the automobile...
...Block Aid. How did it happen that Mayor Walker shared a joint stock-trading account with Newspaper Publisher Paul Block from which, in 1927-29, the Mayor withdrew profits of $246,692 without having invested a cent...
...Inquisitor tossed this question into the proceedings during the last of the Mayor's two sessions on the stand. Publisher Block, according to testimony brought out at an earlier hearing, had been interested in a Brooklyn concern which planned to sell tile to the city subways. The Mayor affirmed the revelation of his amazing generosity with a shrug of his shoulders, called it a "beneficence," said that he always took his gains home in cash and put them in a safe-"not a vault, not a tin box." Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared...
...psychological factor, over-confidence, was no doubt the varsity stumbling block. On Wednesday the Harvard team handed the Bears a 5 to 2 defeat, and that without much effort. Saturday saw Charles Devens, as one-man ball team, aided by other members of the squad, notably Wood and his long distance home run clout, administer Columbia a fitting revenge for an early season upset, 8 to 3. But yesterday the genius of Devens was absent from the pitchers box, and the infield which usually supports him so well collapsed behind the adequate pitching of Taylor. Devens played in centre field...
...Terminal Cab Corp. (General Motors subsidiary) gives him another $10,000 a year. He told Inquisitor Seabury last week that he had taken Mayor Walker over to Brooklyn early one Sunday morning to witness a feat of alchemy. A chemical company which Senator Hastings partly owned with Publisher Paul Block thought it had a way to manufacture gold out of baser metal. The alchemy did not work, but the company was happily discovered to have a tile which just suited the requirements of the Board of Transportation for use in the city's subways...