Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to speak for himself to the public last week because of Conference se crecy, Mr. Stevens was much in the company of Col. Leopold Stennett Amery, onetime Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Great Britain, today a lobbyist. "We," said Col. Amery. "are not advocating anything so extreme as the old Bryan formula of 16 to one.* But much would be accomplished if governments would put a better silver content into their subsidiary coins and if they would allow their central banks to hold some silver as a backing for their currency issues...
...Also lobbied was the notion of an Empire Super-Bank, chief lobbyist for this being Director John Ford Darling of England's mighty Midland Bank. Urging that the London pound sterling be made the Empire currency, Mr. Darling ex pressed his opinion that "the pound now has greater relative strength than at the time it was placed on gold [in 1925] and the American dollar, though backed by gold, is relatively much weaker...
Barrymore has been on the point of death in several recent pictures; it is his gruff demise which makes the end of this picture interesting. He is married to a Washington socialite (Karen Morley) who is extravagant and indiscreet. A public utilities lobbyist (C. Henry Gordon; finally forces him to retire from politics to save her reputation. Presently there is an investigation into Barrymore 's political maneuvers. He learns about his wife's in fidelity in time to expose the machinations of the utilities interests, dies of a broken heart. Good sound : applause and mutterings in the gallery...
...Lobbyist Wilson is paid $6,000 per annum by the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals...
...quite true that I have clients who are much concerned with legislation, and if making arguments to Committees of Congress and dealing in a decent way with matters of legislation that affect clients is lobbying, then I have lobbied and to that extent I am a lobbyist...