Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this to his emotional niece last week, he was courting support from city men in the House for the $383,000,000 increases which the Senate wrote into the 1940 farm bill (TIME, May 22) and which last week were threshed by House-Senate conferees. Besides Actress Bankhead, another lobbyist for Relief who last week journeyed to Washington from Manhattan was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Having served seven terms in Congress himself, he knew just what to do. He got city men in the House to offer their support of the farm bill increases in return for country...
...Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington. No, Mr. Burroughs stoutly declared, Ben Grey was not a lobbyist...
...Grey may not have lobbied for A. G. & E. but in Washington he is considered a lobbyist. A steely-eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...
...John Garner's old buddies and political campaign managers is Roy Miller, lobbyist for the Texas sulfur interests. Mr. Miller last December started a Garner-for-1940 boom with a celebration near Mr. Garner's birthplace in Coon Soup Hollow, Tex. In January, the Vice President did not stop Representative Milton West of Brownsville from putting into the Congressional Record the nominating speech in which Roy Miller said...
...contention, which started when Satevepost recently serialized excerpts from her story, Widow Wilson furnished plenty of material. Friends of Woodrow Wilson's faithful Irish Secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty, now a high-powered Washington lobbyist, hotly dispute Mrs. Wilson's accounts that he 1) tried to get Wilson interested in the since exploded story that Warren Gamaliel Harding had Negro blood; 2) faked a Wilson endorsement of James Middleton Cox for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. And, though by U. S. etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat...