Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 16, in your article headed "Locusts," you quote the President of the U. S. as saying that the halls of Congress were ''haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" and then TIME remarks, ". . . active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year to secure Congressional favors include the following. . . . Motorists. The American Automobile Association, whose special pleader is Alexander E. Johnson, failed to block a Senate increase in the automobile...
...always give your magazine credit for knowing actual facts, but in your issue of May 16 under "Locust" active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year, to secure Congressional favor . . . you list Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance...
Married. Elbridge Gerry II, polo player, grandson of the late philanthropist and founder of the S. P. C. C., and of the late, great Edward Henry Harriman; and Marjorie Y. Kane, Manhattan socialite; by Rt. Rev. Frank Du Moulin, onetime Bishop Coadjutor of Ohio* in Locust Valley, Long Island...
...Moulin, originally chosen to marry the couple, withdrew to hurry to Providence, R. I. to attend the sudden marriage of his son. Crossing Long Island Sound, the ferryboat broke flown, floated around for hours. The ferry boat finally floated back to Long Island, Dr. Du Moulin rushed to Locust Valley, performed the ceremony...
...President of the U. S. last week told the country that the halls of Congress were "haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" (see p. 15). This was news to no newspaper in the U. S. General descriptions of the locust-swarm were wired out of Washington by correspondents, but without naming names...