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