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...Last week two of President Hoover's friends caused him some embarrassment. His attorney, Edwin Paul Shattuck. was being capitalized by the Cuba Sugar Lobby because of White House connections (see p. 9). His business leader Julius Howland Barnes appeared to be involved in controversy with the Federal Farm Board...
...last week's disclosures of Lakin lobbying won no praise from the Committee. Lobbyist Lakin had engaged as the lobby's attorney Edwin Paul Shattuck, a Manhattan lawyer who had served with Herbert Hoover in the Food Administration. To the committee this employment looked like an effort to "hire White House influence." Lobbyist Lakin's letters to Cuban clients, to President Machado himself, told his story for him. Excerpts...
...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...
Nowhere did the testimony show that Lobbyist Lakin had actually obtained anything from the White House by Mr. Shattuck's employment. The President had evidently remained strictly neutral. The Lakin lobby letters were simply a salesman's reports to his employers...
...apparent fact that he had been hired because he was the President's friend and attorney brought an explanation from Mr. Shattuck: "Such an impression is untruthful and unfair to the President and myself. Neither I nor any other friend of the President would attempt to use such a friendship in the manner suggested. . . . It would defeat its own purpose. ... I informed Mr. Hoover of my connection [with the Cuba sugar lobby], not to obtain his approval but so that there would be no misunderstanding. I have never sought anything from the President...