Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest: Nelson's letter was a confidential communication which had nothing to do with the lobby investigation, and it had been pinched from the files when his outfit had been kind enough to let lobby investigators rummage through its records. But his protest was too late: one lobbyist's effectiveness had been cut down to size...
...case for 18 months, Roger Slaughter went on trial, waived a jury. The Government produced only two witnesses and a skimpy skein of circumstantial evidence; the defense presented no witnesses and explained that the government's own testimony proved Slaughter was acting merely as a lawyer, not a lobbyist. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff briskly decided that the Government had no case, acquitted Roger Slaughter within about an hour...
...other speakers were Catherine Baner, lecturer and lobbyist on housing, and Siegfried Giedion, professor of Architecture at Zurich. Miss Bauer stated that study of old masterpieces would prevent modern students from falling into modern cliches, while Giedion stressed that a "study of the past will prevent students from losing contact with reality...
...lobbyist is paid to win friends-pick up luncheon checks, wangle World Series tickets, give cocktail parties-and thus to influence legislation. For such services, 256 organizations paid a record $8,000,000 last year, the Congressional Quarterly reported last week. Biggest spender for the second year in a row was the American Medical Association, which lavished $1,522,683 on "public education" and lobbying activities against the Administration's compulsory health insurance bill. Other big spenders...
Emphasizing the need for lobbying today, MacDonald defined a lobbyist as "a special pleader." "A lobbyist," he said, "becomes one of the most important men around a legislative hall, because the legislators depend on him for accurate information on the question in which he is interested...