Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Mr. Crisp resigned from the Tariff Commission, to which President Hoover had appointed him as a "lame duck." Jan. 1 he becomes lobbyist for Savannah Sugar Corp...
William Marshall Bullitt, onetime (1912-13) Solicitor General of the U. S., appeared as N. E. L.'s volunteer lobbyist before a joint Congressional committee investigating veterans' legislation. Amid a barrage of statistics he set forth savings proposed...
...Lobbyist Bullitt was severely heckled by committee members on N. E. L.'s weakest political point-the benefits its active leaders derive from the U. S. Treasury. The same criticism was leveled at N. E. L. by January FORTUNE. Another cogent charge against the League is that it is politically inept in concentrating its fire on the single front of veterans' expenditures rather than developing a comprehensive plan of attack against all Government spending. Into the record went the following pensions paid the following persons who were advocating pension cuts: General John Joseph Pershing...
From a duck hunt General Ashburn returned to New Orleans last week in fighting trim. He denounced Banker Lisman as an "unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues...
Doak v. Norris. As a Roosevelt stumpster Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...