Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence of what he calls "peace circles" upon the White House...
...Lobbyist Libby last week shifted his aim to the Senate when he declared...
When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor...
...Senator Fess could not make the party Dry by word, he could by deed. He promptly appointed Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, potent Washington lobbyist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to be director of the important Women's Division of the Republican National Committee, vice Mrs. Louise M. Dodson of Iowa, resigned. Mrs. Yost, a sister-in-law of Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed...
...Lobbyists." When Rev. Francis Scott McBride, D.D., general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, appeared upon the stand, he said: "There is no doubt we are lobbyists." He explained that the Anti-Saloon League, exclusive of State branches, spent $273,049.14 last year, that a deficit of $3,132.32, the first in many a year, resulted. The League was given $685 in bad checks in 1929. He balked at disclosing the contributors to the League lest they be "annoyed" by publicity. Lobbyist Mc-Bride's exposition of the League's activities...