Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Curtis C. Cooper; from the presidency of General Motors Acceptance Corp. and the chairmanship of General Exchange Insurance Corp., to be succeeded in both positions by John J. Schumann Jr., vice president of the Acceptance Corp.
Died. Mrs. Julia Graustein, 72, of Cambridge, Mass., mother of President Archibald Robertson Graustein of International Paper & Power Co.; at Cambridge, Mass.
Died. Benjamin A. Armstrong, 85, board chairman of Corticelli Silk Co., president of New London National Bank of Commerce; at New London, Conn.
Lobbyists generally prey on Senators. They are fatter, more influential prey than Representatives. Last week Senators- five of them as a special investigating committee-began to prey on lobbyists. Witnesses winced and twitched uncomfortably as Senators Caraway, Walsh of Montana and Borah took the lead in uncovering their undercover work...
In Connecticut. The climax of the committee's week came in its scrutiny of how one Senator had deliberately hired a lobbyist and taken him, disguised as a Senate clerk, into the Finance Committee's secret hearings as a means of getting higher tariff rates for his State...