Word: eyanson
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Senator had deliberately hired a lobbyist and taken him, disguised as a Senate clerk, into the Finance Committee's secret hearings as a means of getting higher tariff rates for his State (TIME, Oct. 7). The Senator was Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. The lobbyist was Charles L. Eyanson, tariff "expert," assistant to the president (of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association. Together Lobbyist Eyanson and Senator Bingham secured tariff increases for 44 of Connecticut's 51 industries. They averaged about 4% and were worth approximately $75,000,000 in "protection" to the State's manufacturers...
...within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time he was undoubtedly working, even in the Republican army's most secret caucuses...
...warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his subordinate had done quite right. Tall, thin, generalissimo Smoot tried to tell how he had warned his ignorant comrade to send the man Eyanson away, which was done. But these cries were drowned by the angry outbursts of Insurgent Brigadiers Norris and La Follette...