Word: lobbyists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lobbyist Lakin's letters revealed two proposals which the committee called "sinister...
Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...
...right and fear no man. Don't write and fear no Congressman. So might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations, mills, railroads, Lobbyist Lakin went to Washington the first of the year to work against an increased sugar tariff. Cuban planters chipped in to pay his expenses. President Machado of Cuba blessed his activities. So disarmingly had he told his story before that the Lobby Committee praised him for his "frankness...
...last week's disclosures of Lakin lobbying won no praise from the Committee. Lobbyist Lakin had engaged as the lobby's attorney Edwin Paul Shattuck, a Manhattan lawyer who had served with Herbert Hoover in the Food Administration. To the committee this employment looked like an effort to "hire White House influence." Lobbyist Lakin's letters to Cuban clients, to President Machado himself, told his story for him. Excerpts...
Nowhere did the testimony show that Lobbyist Lakin had actually obtained anything from the White House by Mr. Shattuck's employment. The President had evidently remained strictly neutral. The Lakin lobby letters were simply a salesman's reports to his employers...