Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn of the century Congress earnestly debated whether the U.S. should build the projected canal through Panama or Nicaragua. One highly imaginative but possibly decisive argument against Nicaragua was that its volcanoes might menace the canal, and an enterprising Panama-route lobbyist drove the point home by sending members of the U.S. Congress Nicaraguan postage stamps showing a volcano in eruption...
...Bingham was one of four legislators censured by the U.S. Senate in its 167-year history (the others: South Carolina's John L. McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, 1902; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, 1954). In 1929 he brought (as his aide) a Connecticut manufacturers' lobbyist into a closed session of the Senate Finance Committee which was considering a tariff bill of special interest to manufacturers. But politics was never his true province. An irrepressible adventurer, Honolulu-born Hiram Bingham led the first ascent of the Andes' Coropuna (21.700 ft.), discovered the famed Andean ruins...
Here and there the George committee had a hard word to say about the individuals concerned. For example, the Superior Oil Co. of California's $1,000-a-month Lobbyist John Neff "acted with consummate indiscretion in making his promiscuous contacts" in Washington, South Dakota, Iowa and Montana. On one occasion, "while Mr. Neff succeeded in not violating any law here, he appears to have had every intention to do so." Superior Oil's President Howard B. Keck was not responsible for the specifics, but he showed "remarkable laxity" in delegating the expenditure of his "personal funds...
...nation. For representing Trujillo's legal interests and performing "such other services as required" in the U.S., Roosevelt's new law firm in Washington will get a handsome retainer of $60,000 for two years. F.D.R. Jr.'s partner is Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, now a lobbyist for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, but better known for socking the nose of Columnist Drew Pearson in 1952 (Clark got off with a $25 fine...
...Nebraska Republican Finance Chairman Joseph S. Wishart revealed that Lobbyist Neff had contributed $2,500 to G.O.P. funds in his state. Wishart said he had questioned Neff's motives at the time ("When I saw he had this handful of money, there was penalty flags down all over the field for me"), but had finally accepted the donation. Explained Wishart: "I didn't think he could be a lobbyist. He kind of had a cloak-and-dagger attitude. It seemed to me that the poor devil had $2,500 he was trying to do anything to get somebody...