Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed, soon after South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case told of a $2,500 campaign-contribution offer from a natural-gas lobbyist, a Special Senate Committee worked on and off (mostly off) for 14 months, interviewed 146 witnesses, appealed to Senators, press and public to come forth with specific cases of crooked lobbying. Last week the committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, issued its report, reached one major conclusion: "One of the striking circumstances in the investigations has been the lack of specific complaints, or specific facts or information, concerning attempts to influence any member...
...Small Business Administration defines a small business as a retailer with annual sales of not more than $1,000,000, or a wholesaler with sales of $5,000,000 or less; Washington wags describe it as one that cannot afford to keep a lobbyist in the capital. Actually, the facts speak more eloquently on behalf of the troubled small businessman than any lobbyist could. More small concerns went out of business last year than in any year since 1940; bankruptcies this year are running higher than in 1956. Small business' share of total manufacturing sales slipped from...
...headquarters alone, N.E.A. has a staff of 560 running 31 different departments that delve into every aspect of education. Supported mostly by annual dues (now $5), it has grown far beyond its original role as the champion of the schoolteacher. It has become education's statistician, policeman and lobbyist...
...Lobbyist & Friend. Over the years the N.E.A. has been an insistent voice in Congress' ear, a kind of permanent lobbyist in Washington for education's needs. The U.S. Office of Education was one result of its badgering. It has also battled relentlessly for a prize which some other educators considered a poisoned apple: federal aid to education...
...lack of candor is not, however, a direct corollary of the fear of disagreeing with the head of the Foreign Relations Committee, the representative of the China Lobby, the lobbyist for the American Friends of the Middle East, or the Zionists. The real concern, and this is particularly true in the "trouble spot" areas--The Far East, the Middle East, and the Communist satellites--is that the report may go counter to an adopted party line in the State Department. Men and women who may not be afraid of the accusation of Communism do have a certain natural desire...