Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst lobbyist is John A. Kennedy, who went from Iowa to get a job on Hearst's Washington Herald, work up to his Universal Service. Plausible and pontifical, he is equally adept at slapping Congressmen on the back or awing them with suave dinners at the Metropolitan Club. Nominally a newshawk, he resigned temporarily from the Congressional Press Galleries in 1932 to swing around the country coaxing antiWorld Court commitments from Congressional candidates, lately resigned again to head the latest Hearst offensive against the Court...
...World Court battle progressed this lobby circulated with increasing vigor among its Senatorial friends and acquaintances. Three times a day Lobbyist Kennedy telephoned "Hacienda 13 F 11" at San Simeon to report progress, to receive instructions from his chief. Meantime the Hearstlings were aided by a great Voice booming from Detroit across the length & breadth of the land...
Instead of handing a jittery country a gold decision, the Supreme Court utilized Feb. 4 to hand a jolt to an individual. He was Lawyer-Lobbyist William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who last year allowed papers subpoenaed by the Senate's airmail investigation to be removed from his files and destroyed. After a hide & seek with the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.) MacCracken was caught, sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt of the Senate. He appealed all the way to the Supreme Court which last week...
Demands: At this point, you change the High Priest's name to Lobbyist Taylor who is demanding two billion dollars. And it was President Roosevelt who called attention to the Legionary's greater earning capacity than that of the average citizen. Mr. Roosevelt later said that the average veteran dies without any asset other than his Adjusted Service Certificate. Was he mistaken? Did he mean the American Veterans Association, perhaps? Or did he believe that the 85% mentioned are not members of the American Legion? I wonder...
Demands. Last week Lobbyist Taylor was demanding some $2,000,000,000 from the U. S. on the strength of a resolution adopted by the Legion convention in Miami last November. Just prior to that meeting President Roosevelt, in a speech at Roanoke, had called attention to the fact that Legionaries have greater earning power than the average citizen (an indiscreet admission by the American Legion Weekly). Hence, by inference they needed no Bonus. Insulted, the Legionaries at Miami promptly made an outright demand for immediate payment of their Bonus in cash. To get immediate action they elected Frank Nicholas...