Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of the charges was that well-known dealer in secret memos, Washington Columnist Jack Anderson. Last week Anderson published a summary of a personal memo, purportedly written by ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, that linked the favorable antitrust settlement with ITT's pledge to underwrite some of the convention costs. Addressed to William R. Merriam, head of ITT's Washington office, the memo refers to Mrs. Beard's accosting Attorney General Mitchell at a party thrown by former Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn in Louisville after the 1971 Kentucky Derby...
...Paul Union Advocate, a labor weekly, had charged that Minnesota House Majority Leader Ernest Lindstrom was taken to dinner by a liquor lobbyist, with the result that proposed liquor tax increases were dropped from pending legislation. Lindstrom protested that he had paid for his own meal and encountered the lobbyist only casually toward the end of it. He said that he personally favored the higher tax, and voted against it only to get a compromise bill passed by his colleagues. Lindstrom demanded a retraction from Union Advocate Editor Gordon Spielman, did not get it, and took his case...
According to the indictment, Big Juice Jones sent a Washington lobbyist named Wayne L. Bromley ten $1,000 checks during 1963 and 1964 to pay Bromley for representing a Las Vegas savings and loan association. Bromley performed that service by passing the money under the table to Baker, the Senate's Democratic majority secretary. Bromley later turned informer for the Government, and agents sent him to meet Jones with a small radio transmitter strapped to his body. After listening to tapes of their conversation, a Washington grand jury concluded that "Jones was trying to teach Bromley his perjured story...
...most virulent attacks on Rehnquist came from civil rights leaders. Clarence Mitchell, chief Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P., poured it on: "The Rehnquist nomination raises grim warnings. Through that nomination the foot of racism is placed in the door of the temple of justice. The Rehnquist record tells us that the hand of the oppressor will be given a chance to write opinions that will seek to turn back the clock of progress. We hope the nomination will be rejected because it is an insult to Americans who support civil rights...
Then a scandal broke. South Dakota Republican Senator Francis Case declared that an oil lobbyist had offered him a $2,500 bribe to support the bill. An angry President Eisenhower vetoed the measure. Asked about the scandal, Connally remarked: "1 had no part in the incident any more than anyone else who was interested in the oil and gas business." After Richardson's death in 1959, Connally was made one of three co-executors of his estate, a job for which he was paid...