Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind closed doors, the Senate had deliberated for six hours on contempt proceedings against William MacCracken Jr., Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, Harris M. Hanshue, Gilbert L. Givvin. All were charged with removing or permitting to be removed from Air Lobbyist MacCracken's Washington offices correspondence previously subpenaed by the Senate's ocean & airmail contract investigating committee (TIME...
...backdoor man." I am not a "lobbyist." I am a lawyer. My appearances have been in public, before the proper tribunals, and in the true character of my connection with whatever cases I have presented...
TIME gladly accepts and believes able Lawyer Hurley's disclaimer of being a lobbyist. TIME also agrees that the influence of a Republican Secretary of War with a Democratic Administration is not worth...
...Simmons and others. Then Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney reported to the Senate that he had procured the attendance before the Senate of L. H. Brittin, Gilbert Givvin, and Harris M. Hanshue, air company officials accused of taking letters under Senate subpena from the office of their Lobbyist William P. MacCracken Jr. (TIME, Feb. 12). But Sergeant Jurney had to report that from Mr. MacCracken, he had nothing more than a letter. Senate faces grew grim as they listened to Mr. MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate, denying its right to summon...
...appeared as a balky witness two days prior. In 1926, Mr. MacCracken, a specialist on aviation law, took up his post as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics under Secretary Hoover. In October 1929, he tendered President Hoover his resignation, stayed on in Washington as a lawyer-lobbyist for nearly all the larger air transport companies. From witnesses called during the previous three weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post Office Department at which Mr. MacCracken presided. The meeting's purpose was to carve...