Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Arkansas' Senator Robinson lunched Sir Ronald at the Capitol, took him on the Senate floor. Later Indiana's crude Robin- son flayed the Ambassador as a "lobbyist" for debt cancelation. Arkansas' Robinson promptly admitted that he had made a "mistake" in taking Sir Ronald on the floor, explained: "It was an unintentional disregard of the Senate rules. T did not refresh myself on them. The subject of international debts was not mentioned, much less discussed...
What Mr. Roosevelt told his many and assorted visitors-an "old dodo bird" of the Wilson era and two Pueblo Indians, an R. F. C. director and a Big Navy lobbyist, a Senator from Illinois and a Senator from France, a onetime Governor of Kansas and a onetime Ambassador to Germany- neither he nor they would reveal. In Washington, Louisiana's Senator Long, radical Roosevelt supporter bucking the conservative Democratic leadership of Arkansas' Senator Robinson (see p. 12), gave this version of interviews with the President-elect: "When I talk to him, he says 'Fine! Fine! Fine...
...Lobbyist Bullitt insisted that there was a "decided difference" between the retired pay of regular Army & Navy officers and the pensions to veterans who served only briefly during the War. In Boston where he was recovering from influenza Admiral Byrd rose up to reply: "I'm proud of being a naval officer. ... I will not be muzzled, intimidated nor stopped. . . . The principle of the right of liberty itself is involved. . . . Whether or not General Harbord, General Pershing and I are on the retired list makes no difference. . . . The movement will sweep forward...
Chief heckler was Indiana's loud Senator Robinson, a War veteran and ardent pension booster. "Outrageous!" he cried when Lobbyist Bullitt called most disability payments "doles, pure and simple," and pointed to Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
Died. Levi Cooke, 50, Washington beer lobbyist, lawyer, potent in pushing the Collier beer bill through the House of Representatives (TIME, Dec. 26); of acute indigestion; in Washington. Beer associate of St. Louis' Adolphus Busch and Manhattan's Col. Jacob Ruppert, he long lobbied for the U. S. Brewers' Association, led the American Bar Association fight to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress, at one of which his beer bill was finally passed...