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Word: lobbyist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gardner, onetime Governor of North Carolina, announced that "early in the fall'' he resigned as that State's Democratic National Committeeman. Last April he went to Washington as the lawyer-lobbyist for rayon and cotton textile interests. To prove the good faith of his political resignation the White House released a letter in which the President had written him: "It is good to have friends who are so actuated by high principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Backdoor Men | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Arthur F. Mullen balked at resigning his good job as Nebraska's Democratic National Committeeman just because he had been doing a thumping good business as a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington since last spring. Said he: "I do not claim to have any 'back door' to the White House and I practice law on my own merits alone. ... I have been a National Committeeman for many years and I have not found my profession in conflict with my office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Backdoor Men | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, who has busied himself as a game reservation lobbyist since he left the Senate, told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...pound less than the Government was paying; that the Postmaster General forced him to sell out to American Airways-which he did at a $500,000 profit. ¶Hainer Hinshaw, onetime American Airways lobbyist, said Postmaster Brown had induced his company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 10-F to Honolulu | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...move to Illinois. At the age of 12 Son John, big of body, loud of lungs, went into the mines as a mule-driver. Later he mined silver in New Mexico, copper in Arizona, gold in Colorado. Smarter than most, he got a job as U. M. W. lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there in a two-story stucco house on a corner lot, with a private telephone number, a Chevrolet in the garage. In 1908 old Sam Gompers visited Springfield, spotted Lobbyist Lewis as a likely youth to serve the American Federation of Labor. After six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Great Resurgence | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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