Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, after 16 years in the Legion's service,' John Thomas Taylor has the biggest reputation of any lobbyist in Washington. He gets only $6,000 a year but with a lucrative law practice on the side is not pinched. His title is Vice Chairman of the Legion's National Legislative Committee. The chairman of the committee is an appointive nonentity who changes every year. He and the Legion's national commander decide policies while John Thomas Taylor is the cult's high priest in the legislative temple...
...altar which he serves Lobbyist Taylor has the best possible priestly attributes. In private life he loves his little luxuries (lobster Newburg, pastries, pies & cakes), but he never drinks a drop. His vestments are spats, a snap-brim hat, a walking stick. His aspect is impressive, a fine broad forehead, a jutting chin, sharp eyes, hair steely grey. His manner is positive bravado, his voice stentorian, his cigars black. His apostolic jewels are a magnificent row of decorations: from the U. S. a Silver Star (citation in orders); from France, the bronze Medal of Verdun and the cross...
...committee table rose Senator Clark, one of the Legion's organizers and its second national commander, to roar: "If any member of the Legion took such action he is a disgrace to the Legion and should be expelled. It is an absolute prostitution of the Legion." Chief Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor denied he had worked against the Arms Embargo Bill...
...best of pillars outlive their usefulness and have to be replaced. Mr. Willard, now 73, does not call as often as he once did at the White House. President Roosevelt does his railroad talking now with men like Carl Gray of Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would...
...with indignation the American Newspaper Publishers Association girded for another fray, in which their field general would be, as always, Lawyer Elisha Hanson. Chubby, suave, immensely clever, with a facility for catching witnesses off guard with abrupt questions, Lawyer Hanson has long been the Press's No. i lobbyist in Washington...