Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gray Silver, "the Legislature representative" (i. e., head lobbyist) of the American .Farm Bureau Federation, gave out last week a list of some of the things that farmers want from the next session of Congress: ¶A bill to develop Muscle Shoals for cheap fertilizer. Mr. Silver spoke repeatedly of the Ford bid, but did not specify that it was the only one acceptable to farmers. He argued that more power must be applied to agricultural processes and showed the effect of increased power; that in 1850, with 1.5 horsepower per farmer, nine farmers were able to feed themselves...
...gressman or any farmer knows all about him. Gray Silver is the Legislative Agent of the Farm Bureau Federation. He is the Federation's mouthpiece in Washington, keeps tab on the legislation that farmers are interested in. He is probably the greatest of the new type of lobbyist. The old type of lobbyist was a man who went around pulling wires, invoicing "pull," giving parties, wining and dining the men whom he expected to pass his bills. The new type of lobbyist is entirely aboveboard. His weapon is the card index. He keeps tab on everything and everybody that...
...odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted...
...fact that formal publicity is not needed, for Rumor has a far greater circulation than any known publication, it is also to be explained by the character of those activities. Dealing almost entirely with prejudices, personalities, banalities, and petty emulation they are singularly uninteresting to all but the amateur lobbyist. Yet occasionally some action merits passing notice as showing a trend of thought or a tendency in college life...
Universities in America are run on business lines. The President speedily becomes the traveling salesman of a body of business Trustees or (in the case of a State university) an expert lobbyist. His bag never unpacked, he is ready to dash into his sleeper to catch the next conference or alumni banquet. He is never in his own library or among his own students...