Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union rough stuff and muscle flexing from A (for assault with a deadly weapon) down to Y (for yelling from the witness stand-see Investigations). But it missed the last letter, until Z turned up around the House of Representatives recently in the form of a hard-boiled Hoffa lobbyist. His name: Sidney Zagri...
When Lenore Lafount moved to New York to study acting, he spent all his weekends there. In 1930 he went to work as a lobbyist for Aluminum Co. of America; when Lenore got an offer from Hollywood (she was a bit player), he convinced Alcoa that he would be more valuable in their West Coast office. "I kept thinking," he says, "that some movie hero would get her." Lenore thought she wanted a career, but George's persistence was overpowering. Just as M-G-M offered her a three-year contract, he persuaded her to marry him instead, took...
...week laid down his philosophy that Government aid should be a stopgap thing and hinted strongly that it was high time for his listeners to stop asking for more subsidies. Occasion: the meeting of 8,000 delegates to the 17th annual convention of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, lobbyist for the farm co-ops subsidized by the U.S. under the Rural Electrification Administration...
...most dynamic spokesman and "lobbyist" for Washington the nation's troubled railroads is James Miller Symes, 61, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest (1958 revenue $844,200,000). Husky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 lbs.), highballing Jim Symes was the driving force behind the Smathers act, which gave the railroads some Government help and a measure of relief from overregulation. But he thinks the railroads can do much more to help themselves - by merging. Last week Jim Symes proclaimed that he still has an urge to merge, deplored the New York Central's scrapping...
...present, the Student Council acts as a 'mute lobbyist'," Croman asserted in his pre-election speech. He pledged to expand the Council's quarterly publication to a bi-monthly basis in an effort to improve communication with the student body...