Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention has been called to an article appearing in the Sept. 3 issue of TIME under the heading: "Corner in Rye?" In this article there is the following statement: ". . . Cullum named some of the combine's members: The Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...Sample information: a sudden Government decision last March to buy 870,000 tons of rye.) Cullum named some of the combine's members: the Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...giving all the answers, bossed the move of 700 employees, with scarcely a hitch. When American opened an administrative office in Washington in 1942, she was picked to help run it. She dealt expertly with government agencies, got to know important people in & out of Congress, became an accomplished lobbyist for the airline's projects...
...great-grandfather was the profane steamboater and railroad builder, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Civil Rights Congress bail fund, of which Field is secretary, has handed over about $450,000 in bail money for the beleaguered Communists in the past three years. He is a registered foreign agent, as a lobbyist for Communist China. Congress cited him for contempt last year for refusing to answer questions, but he was acquitted in Federal court on a plea of possible selfincrimination...
...Millions. Smooth, fast-talking Lobbyist Bill Treadwell, who works for Britain's Tea Bureau, claims he has boosted U.S. tea consumption 17 million lbs. a year, largely by getting tea scenes into 83 movies in two years. His greatest coup: persuading Warner to change the name of its musical, No! No! Nanette! to Tea for Two. (In return, Treadwell used some of the Tea Bureau's $2,000,000-a-year promotion fund to squire a couple of starlets on a 14-city tour as "Miss Iced Tea for Two" and "Miss...