Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Horace Bushnell Cheney, 68, of the South Manchester (Conn.) silk family, longtime chief Silk Association lobbyist; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Santa...
...even larger question mark when he finished speaking. ... I am disappointed." The Voice of Pennsylvania (George H. Earle): "We were not impressed by any talk of fumbling with recovery. . . . Governor Landon may be familiar with [the steel industry] since his uncle, William T. Mossman, is the chief lobbyist in Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania steel masters. The Pennsylvania steel industry is booming today as it has never boomed since the World War (see p. 49). Governor Landon, who radiates sweetness, light and love for all mankind, is a Kansas Lorelei...
...only new meat in this Michelson feast of criticism was Governor Earle's reference to Nominee Landon's uncle as "the chief lobbyist of the Pennsylvania steel masters." A brother of Governor Landon's late mother, William T. Mossman has been public relations chief for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. for the past 25 years. Last week Governor Earle was not the only partisan who attempted to embarrass Governor Landon by lugging his lobbyist uncle irrelevantly into the campaign. Philip Murray, head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and right-hand man of John L. Lewis...
Died. Maude Younger, 66, oldtime feminist, National Women's Party lobbyist in Washington"(1916-20) at the time the 19th Amendment was passed; of an intestinal infection; at Overlook Ranch, Los Gatos, Calif...
...Senate bill would apply not only to all lobbyists at the Capitol but to those who appear similarly before all branches of the Government. The House bill, less broad though in some respects stricter, requires the registration of all organizations seeking to influence legislation or the election of Federal officeholders (except actual political committees)*; the registration of every person employed as a lobbyist together with reports every three months of his employers' names, all his salaries and fees, all his expenses of $10 or more, the names of all newspapers and periodicals "in which he had caused...