Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awards. For his vigilance in discovering Lobbyist Charles L. Eyanson of Connecticut Manufacturers Association in the offices of Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut (TIME, Oct. 28), John A. Kennedy of Universal News Service (Hearst) was awarded the Chester D. Pugsley prize of $1,000. Second prize went to Paul R. Mallon of the United Press who disclosed the Senate's secret roll call on the confirmation of onetime Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin, as a judge in the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
While Francis Scott McBride, chief Anti-Saloon League lobbyist, was declaring that Mr. Drury's testimony was "a knock-out blow to the Wets' pet scheme," Wets talked of inviting Premier Ferguson to Washington to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to refute the statements of his Canadian opponent. Premier Ferguson promptly scotched this proposal as "undesirable," but offered to send all data necessary to prove the success of Ontario's liquor system...
...eastern end of the State. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon and his nephew William Lorimer Mellon in Pittsburgh administer the western end. When the U. S. Senate refused to seat Mr. Vare, Governor John Stuchell Fisher, a Mellon man, appointed Joseph Ridgeway Grundy of Bristol, arch-lobbyist for the Tariff, active raiser of campaign funds. Long used to dictating to politicians though never before a large officeholder, Mr. Grundy greatly enjoyed his transition and soon regarded himself as the G. O. P. boss of the whole State. An upright Quaker, he scorned Boss Vare. Solidly intrenched with industrial...
...final snapper to their side of the argument, the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, prepared to close their case this week before the Judicial Committee with such professional advocates of Prohibition as Clarence True Wilson, lobbyist for the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, and Dr. Francis Scott McBride. lobbyist for the Anti-Saloon League of America...
Next day such potent prohibitors as Francis Scott McBride, chief lobbyist for the Anti-Saloon League, Clarence True Wilson, chief lobbyist for the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, and Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, president of the W.C. T.U., packed into the committee room to hear approvingly other witnesses defend the Dry cause...