Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform great was the ovation. The hall, with 15,000 people in it, was nearly full but there was no overflow audience. First, the evening's hero let his sponsors spellbind the crowd. Applause and cheers came liberally, turning to hisses when Priest Coughlin's Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Ward, referred to "a certain kept General, Hugh S. Johnson." It was 11 p. m. before Priest Coughlin's turn arrived but the audience was still enthusiastic...
With headquarters in Washington, Retail Lobbyist Sherrill is expected to bring unity out of the babel. "We merchants," said Merchant Kirstein with feeling, "dealing directly with more than 100,000,000 customers, would like to be consulted about national and economic problems. That will be the job of the American Retail Federation, and I believe that Mr. Sherrill will see that it is done...
...Donahey had handily carried off the honors, the New Deal gratefully found Charles West an $8,000 job as assistant to Governor William I. Myers in the Farm Credit Administration. He still holds that office but last week he was promoted to an unofficial position best described as "Chief Lobbyist for the Administration...
...originated and sponsored by an elected representative of the people of the U. S. Actually, it is child & chattel of the American Legion. Of that fact, in the final hearings before the Committee vote last week, the Legion's Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. and its No. 1 Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor made no bones. "Our bill," said they, and "the American Legion ... its bill. . . ." But when the question came up of how to raise the $2,137,975,157 called for by the bill, Lobbyist Taylor modestly referred that problem to the House Appropriations Committee and the Treasury...
Bill MacCracken was William Patterson MacCracken Jr., 48, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, secretary of the American Bar Association, aviation lawyer-lobbyist. Last year the Senate charged him with permitting destruction of papers which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days...