Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Labor's longtime lobbyist, Mr. McGrady knew how t o handle Congressional committees and "white collar" crowds. But this crew inside the hall was different. They had in effect repudiated John L. Lewis, their national president. They were angry and suspicious. "To hell with 'em!" was their attitude toward the mine operators. In their midst sat their real strike leader, a magnetic Irishman named Martin Ryan. Straight at him Mr. McGrady directed his harangue, brandished the magic name of Franklin D. Roosevelt: "I'm here acting for the President of the United States...
John Doctor, a huffy person when told what to do or not do by anyone outside the medical profession, last week got Congress to lift practically all restrictions on whiskey prescriptions. It was a long struggle of attrition against the Prohibitionists. Dr. William Creighton Woodward, Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association, eventually won for John Doctor, helped by John Doctor's telegrams, telephone calls and airmailed letters to Senators and Representatives...
...potentiality. In an effort to beat the sun's march north it had been hastily whipped together by young, diffident Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, by alert, dapper Assistant Secretary Tugwell, by wise, bespectacled Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, new economic adviser to the Secretary and by Frederick Lee, onetime lobbyist for the major farm organizations. At the Capitol, Representative Jones of Texas whisked it into his Committee on Agriculture, summoned his colleagues, slammed the door and settled down to mull over its complexities...
...Lobbyist's Daughter...
Secretary of Labor Doak, with his estate "Notre Nid" (our nest) in Virginia, will stay on in Washington as lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...