Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage Manager. To marshal Dry witnesses and their testimony was the work of Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, chairman of the Association of Organizations in Support of the Eighteenth Amendment, Washington agent (lobbyist) for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Able, smiling, determined, she stage-managed the Dry testimony from the wings of the committee room, sent her witnesses out to tell their stories, did not take the stage herself...
With speeches and round table discussion by a socialist, a lobbyist, a liberal editor, a journalist, and social scientists, the students of Wesleyan will join with their guests from most of the Eastern colleges in a study of the relationship existing between American business and government, with an eye to present apparent tendencies and probable future trends...
Delegates heard Dr. Francis Scott McBride, their Washington lobbyist, recite his achievements. They crossed the Detroit River to have a look at government-controlled liquor stores and liquor export docks on the Canadian shore...
...without its moments of humor. One of the most revered traditions of these United States, and one that stands aloof from lobbyist mud slinging and presidential scandals, is the belief that the Supreme Court, like older and wiser vestiges of autocracy, can do no wrong. The citizens of tomorrow, the backbone around which the nation will be built, have shared this belief in full innocence of the ways of men and morals. When the Volstead Act was declared no infringement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Young America wavered a moment in doubt. And then in the most...
...week climbed doggedly back into their trenches to finish the Tariff War. They swung into action with a skirmish on wool. The coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested in the industry sheltered under this paragraph. Therefore I withhold...