Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the change might have been the switch in staff; China lobbyist Alfred Kohlberg had dropped out as Treasurer. In any case, its current editorials calmly discuss recent primary results--in terms of a voter rebellion against the Democratic New Deal and Casaristic elements in the groundswell for Eisenhower. Other editorials criticize President Truman for allowing his loyalty to General Marshall to overide professions of sympathy with Chiang Kai-shek, and complain that the current Wage Stabilization program has union leanings...
...Bees are still liberal and staunchly independent. They still crusade, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1935 for exposing political corruption in Nevada. Four years ago, the Sacramento Bee was largely responsible for passage of a lobby-control act after it exposed California's most notorious lobbyist, 300-lb. Artie Samish...
...Other Winchells. The busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell...
...University is the only educational institution in the state that employed a lobbyist last year, according to a list of lobbyists published yesterday in the Boston Daily Globe...
...stirred up the dormant seaway debate on Capitol Hill. Backers of the joint plan called for Congress to act fast before the Canadians go ahead with a route on which U.S. ships will have to pay tolls. The anti-seaway forces still charged that the Canadians were bluffing. One lobbyist called St. Laurent's visit "a propaganda maneuver...