Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause of the Interstate Commerce...
Diplomat McGrady. Out of all this will come only one sure thing: work for Ed McGrady. He has always been the New Deal's labor trouble shooter. Taken from his job as chief lobbyist of the A. F. of L., he was made General Hugh Johnson's labor-aide on NRA, soon after Assistant Secretary of Labor, began his travels from strike to strike. In 1933 he went to Uniontown, Pa. where striking United Mine Workers were meeting. In one speech he persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent...
...political career also began early, as a member of Boston's Common Council and of the Massachusetts Legislature. After the War, Samuel Gompers called him to Washington to mix labor and politics as a lobbyist for the A. F. of L. He proved an expert at it, affable, friendly, fair, efficient. He systematically canvassed every member of Congress, treated them to persuasion but not to parties, being himself a teetotaler, having joined in youth the St. Peter & St. Paul Total Abstinence Society...
...Charlotte's cannery, the reformed lobbyist starts an enlightened co-operative industry which soon brings publicity and Capitalist Sartos to the scene. Sartos recognizes Blake, has him arrested, fosters mob-violence to wreck the cannery and the whole co-operative venture, upon which by this time the eyes of the whole nation are focused. How Blake gets out of jail, encompasses the fall of his foes and the rise of a new economic era brings The President's Mystery to an exciting though hardly realistic...
...espouse the cause of Franklin Roosevelt, New Dealers had another in the Democratic primary for Senator. Representative Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace in upper Michigan, while not well-known throughout the State, was expected to win handily. Opposed by Louis B. Ward, Father Coughlin's onetime Washington lobbyist, Representative Brown polled only 124,000 votes, about 4,000 more than the Coughlinite...