Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lobbyist Grundy, 67, grey-haired, white-mustached, thick through the shoulders, said he had raised $750,000 for the Coolidge campaign in 1924, had helped to raise "almost a million" for the Hoover campaign of 1928. This year he had spent $20,000 out of his own pocket in seeing that Pennsylvania industries got back, in higher tariff rates, these political contributions...
...Hawley-Smoot bill, he thought, was "a very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff...
...bemoaned the passing of the oldline lobbyist who "really knew the tariff." He suggested the formation of a special school in which younger men could be taught the art of tariff lobbying. Praise from the master-lobbyist: "If there were a hundred brilliant young men like Mr. Eyanson [see below] in Washington, the country would be better...
...Lobbyist Eyanson took the stand but could add little to the story his employer had told the day before. He could see nothing wrong in the "service" he rendered. So evasive was his testimony that Senator Walsh charged him with deliberately developing a "feeble memory...
Significance. The first week's disclosures before the Senate's lobby committee, observers thought, seriously imperiled the whole tariff bill now before the Senate. Vague and generalized have been the charges heretofore that special interests exert special influence through lobbyists to obtain special tariff favors. Now opposition Senators were supplied with damning specifications for use in debate. Every tariff increase was suspect. The investigating committee tasting blood, was in full bay after that prime tariff lobbyist, Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the American Tariff League. The rotund Grundy shadow has moved about the Capitol almost...