Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House had plenty of help in making up its mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for Congressmen in his swank 23rd Street home. Economist-Lobbyist John E. Dalton, ex-chief of sugar for AAA, wrote carefully prepared treatises and reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi...
...unfair. . . . He has acted as a prosecutor. . . . Shall I permit myself to be lynched to satisfy prejudice or personal ambition?" Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker faced each other again. Mr. & Mrs. Walker paid a call at the White House (see cut). Ostensibly Jimmy went as lawyer-lobbyist for a long-projected "57th Street Bridge," which would connect New Jersey with Manhattan's 62nd Street. Outside the White House, Citizen Walker said, "[We were greeted] as cordially as anybody could expect to be greeted by the President...
...this? What their patients? Who would run U. S. medicine? A sentimental sociologist like Secretary of Labor Perkins or a political Relief Administrator like Mr. Hopkins? Or a doctor like Surgeon General Parran? Or a medical oligarchy like the A. M. A.'s Secretary-General Manager Olin West, Lobbyist William Creighton Woodward and Editor Morris Fishbein...
...Senator Hugo La Fayette Black of Alabama re-introduced a resolution for the Senate's Labor Committee, of which he is chairman, to investigate or recommend legislation "to provide a national public health policy." When such a resolution first was presented to the Senate, A. M. A. Lobbyist Woodward got it squelched. Now, said Senator Black, "the Association seems ready to co-operate...
...Every professional lobbyist, every professional politician and every representative of greed and monopoly is hoping and praying that your work will be a failure. . . . Your constituents do not expect perfection. They know that it is human to err, but they do expect and have a right to expect absolute honesty, unlimited courage and a reasonable degree of efficiency and wisdom. . . . From now on Nebraska has a right to expect a business administration...