Word: neff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here and there the George committee had a hard word to say about the individuals concerned. For example, the Superior Oil Co. of California's $1,000-a-month Lobbyist John Neff "acted with consummate indiscretion in making his promiscuous contacts" in Washington, South Dakota, Iowa and Montana. On one occasion, "while Mr. Neff succeeded in not violating any law here, he appears to have had every intention to do so." Superior Oil's President Howard B. Keck was not responsible for the specifics, but he showed "remarkable laxity" in delegating the expenditure of his "personal funds...
...stronger than ever. The road is 100% dieselized, with $342 million worth of new cars, locomotives and other facilities added between 1946 and 1955. It has netted more than $11 million in 1954, and its freight cars are younger than the national average. Appointed as new president: Paul J. Neff, a Missourian who has been with MoPac or its subsidiaries since 1926 and who has actually been running the road since 1946 as chief executive officer...
That there would be plenty to look at was indicated by the political waves already spreading from the $2,500 cash gift from Superior Oil Co. Lobbyist John Neff to South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case, which Case rejected. Items...
...Donald R. Ross, U.S. attorney for Nebraska, spent eight days on the Justice Department griddle in Washington, returned to Omaha, resigned. Ross had arranged interviews for Lobbyist Neff with Nebraska's Republican Senators Carl Curtis (a member of Gore's subcommittee) and Roman Hruska, both of whom voted for the gas bill...
...Nebraska Republican Finance Chairman Joseph S. Wishart revealed that Lobbyist Neff had contributed $2,500 to G.O.P. funds in his state. Wishart said he had questioned Neff's motives at the time ("When I saw he had this handful of money, there was penalty flags down all over the field for me"), but had finally accepted the donation. Explained Wishart: "I didn't think he could be a lobbyist. He kind of had a cloak-and-dagger attitude. It seemed to me that the poor devil had $2,500 he was trying to do anything to get somebody...