Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cain has voted against such proposals as public power, housing, Federal dams in Washington, virtually everything endorsed by labor groups, a 70 group air force, European military assistance aid. He once boasted, "I have been said by many to be the number one real-estate lobbyist in America. I have never resented this title," and in 1949 stated, "I am strongly inclined to support the North Atlantic Treaty while reserving the right to be in complete opposition to its implementation." He later...
...Democratic speaker will be Kenneth J. Kelley, Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor. Kelley is also the chief lobbyist for the A.F. of L. in the state...
...latest edition of the "Green Book," Washington's social register, came off the presses with some notable omissions from the listing: former Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, former Assistant Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle, and Lobbyist Charles Patrick Clark, whose crime was taking a poke in public at Columnist Drew Pearson...
...civil rights. Mrs. Mildred Younger, a 31-year-old Los Angeles housewife, presided over the civil-rights subcommittee with an intelligent, calm hand, asked witnesses piercing questions which showed that her political experience extended far beyond the chicken-patty circuit of most women politicians. The daughter of a California lobbyist for public-school teachers and the wife of a lawyer, she was no stranger to proceedings of this kind. Said she: "I was two years old the first time I went on the floor of the legislature at Sacramento...
...secretaries. It was an appropriate gift. Two weeks earlier, in the Sulgrave Club, he had been attacked by Senator Joe McCarthy. Last week, in the lobby of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, Columnist Pearson was punched again. His attacker: Washington Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, $75,000-a-year lobbyist for Franco's Spain, who has been one of Pearson's prime targets in the past few months. In detailed columns, Pearson charged Clark with using undue influence to get Maine's Senator Owen Brewster and Brooklyn's Congressman Eugene Keogh to sponsor aid to Franco. There...