Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin...
Nutt's $1,500,000. Fortnight ago the Republican treasury reported an operating deficit for August. Joseph Nutt. G. O. P. treasurer, found money difficult to raise. In Pennsylvania where Joseph Grundy, famed campaign cash collector, tariff lobbyist and onetime Senator, has "retired'' politically, he encountered the leanest pickings in years. But after the Maine election Treasurer Nutt reported to the White House (and the public): "This is making my job easier. People who want to maintain the present administration in power have gone to work and the money is coming in. I'm sure...
Livest Lobby, The significance of a Legion declaration for the Bonus lies in the fact that it will unleash upon Congress the most powerful lobby in Washington. The Legion's chief lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat...
...National Economy League was created with Admiral Byrd for temporary chairman. On its advisory committee are Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Newton Diehl Baker, Elihu Root, General Pershing. Admiral Sims. Its broad mission is to force reductions in all governmental expenditures. Its immediate objective is to cut veterans' appropriations. Lobbyist Taylor last month spotted N. E. L. as a real foe, urged "thorough and complete organization if we are to be successful in the future...
When President Coolidge left the White House in 1929, Secretary Clark, who looks not unlike his erstwhile chief, was snapped up by Louis Kroh Liggett and made vice president of Drug Inc., $60,000,000 Liggett holding company. Mr. Clark became Mr. Liggett's Washington lobbyist. He worked against higher duties on drugs and toilet articles in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, against taxes on cosmetics in the 1932 Revenue Act. Drug Inc. has lent him to the White House, will pay his salary as its campaign contribution...