Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Priest. The active head of that lobby is John Thomas Taylor. Son of a onetime police chief of Philadelphia, he went to Washington as a lawyer, learning the science of politics under that master politician, Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania. Back in Washington after the War, this A. E. F. major joined the Legion's lobby. That lobby was then headed by 1 ) Colonel Luke Lea who presently returned to Tennessee and ultimately went to jail in North Carolina, and 2 ) Major Taylor's law partner, Thomas Miller, who subsequently became Alien Property Custodian and served a term...
...March 15, 1919, in the city of Paris, some 1,000 U. S. veterans met to forget the War. On hand were such men as Captain Ogden Livingston Mills, Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Colonel William J. Donovan, Major de Lancey Kountze, Colonel Bennett Champ Clark, Major John Thomas Taylor. With Colonel Clark in the chair, they formed themselves into a society whose purpose was expressed in a preamble: "For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution . . . Law and order . . . 100% Americanism . . . Memories . . . Individual obligation to the community . . . Right . . . Peace...
Today, after 16 years in the Legion's service,' John Thomas Taylor has the biggest reputation of any lobbyist in Washington. He gets only $6,000 a year but with a lucrative law practice on the side is not pinched. His title is Vice Chairman of the Legion's National Legislative Committee. The chairman of the committee is an appointive nonentity who changes every year. He and the Legion's national commander decide policies while John Thomas Taylor is the cult's high priest in the legislative temple...
...altar which he serves Lobbyist Taylor has the best possible priestly attributes. In private life he loves his little luxuries (lobster Newburg, pastries, pies & cakes), but he never drinks a drop. His vestments are spats, a snap-brim hat, a walking stick. His aspect is impressive, a fine broad forehead, a jutting chin, sharp eyes, hair steely grey. His manner is positive bravado, his voice stentorian, his cigars black. His apostolic jewels are a magnificent row of decorations: from the U. S. a Silver Star (citation in orders); from France, the bronze Medal of Verdun and the cross...
Demands. Last week Lobbyist Taylor was demanding some $2,000,000,000 from the U. S. on the strength of a resolution adopted by the Legion convention in Miami last November. Just prior to that meeting President Roosevelt, in a speech at Roanoke, had called attention to the fact that Legionaries have greater earning power than the average citizen (an indiscreet admission by the American Legion Weekly). Hence, by inference they needed no Bonus. Insulted, the Legionaries at Miami promptly made an outright demand for immediate payment of their Bonus in cash. To get immediate action they elected Frank Nicholas...