Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, arch-lobbyist of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (TIME, July 1), last week hinted, in an article for Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect...
...week prior, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee had held sugar hearings to which flocked white men and brown men, businessmen and lawyermen, bearing bulging brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...Wilson's going halted, at least temporarily, the agitation of a prime popular question: Is the Methodist Board a "lobby"? Is Dr. Wilson an arch-lobbyist? The question had been most recently raised by Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts...
...week, New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, a Methodist, charged that the church was meddling with U. S. affairs. But it was the Methodist Church, not the Catholic, to which he referred. Senator Copeland charged that the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in Washington were lobbyists; that in 1927 they had tried to influence his vote on a prohibition measure.* Said the Senator in an open letter to Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the board: "I have been greatly concerned for years over what I regard to be an improper activity, the work at Washington...
Practically all the clamor was for increased duties. Chester H. Gray, chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...