Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association in 1939 and rose to managing director. Romney became good friends with George Mason, then president of the A.M.A. When Mason became chairman of Nash in 1948, he invited Romney along "to learn...
Nothing Personal. Ike flew to Springfield to help the G.O.P. ticket and. especially, Senatorial Candidate Joseph T. Meek, former lobbyist for the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, disciple of the Chicago Tribune. There was nothing personal in Ike's help for Meek. The senatorial candidate was not at the airport to meet the President. At lunch in the governor's mansion, Meek was not seated at Ike's table. When the presidential motorcade left for the fairgrounds, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Indiana's Governor George Craig rode with Ike. Meek rode with...
...Republican National Committee, had violated the "spirit" of Kansas' lobbying laws in 1951 (TIME, April 6, 1953). The committee frowned because Roberts, a professional pressagent, took an $11,000 fee in the sale of a hospital to the state, when he was not registered as a lobbyist. Although Roberts held no political job at the time he took the fee, the committee's report forced him to hurry to Dwight Eisenhower and hand in his resignation as Republican national chairman. Then he dropped from public view. Last week he was back in the news: the Manhattan investment firm...
...your places," urged Acting Subcommittee Chairman Karl Mundt, rapping sharply for order with a glass ashtray (Capitol police had removed the brown china ashtrays inscribed "If it's American, it's worth protecting'' which had been placed around the table by an enterprising high-tariff lobbyist). After delivering himself of a windy, 1,800-word speech on the problems and aims of the hearings, Mundt called for the first witness-and at that precise point. Joe McCarthy made his first move. Pulling his microphone close to him he objected strenuously to the fact that the Stevens...
...Lobbyist Samish was seldom seen in the Capitol itself. He kept voluminously informed through an intelligence network, made up of stenographers, clerks, politicians, businessmen, gamblers, gangsters and high state officials. Sometimes Artie mischievously dropped in at a legislative committee meeting in which he had no direct interest. Thereafter he was likely to get the credit for anything the committee might accomplish...