Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when you say, "And Mr. Marvin was a lobbyist in Washington, for the wool trade." I have never been a "lobbyist" in Washington for the wool trade, or for any other trade, and have never received one dollar in compensation for representing any manufacturer or group of manufacturers in Washington or elsewhere...
Misinformed as to the nature of the Home Market Club, TIME apologizes for identifying Mr. Marvin specially with the wool trade. As to his being a "lobbyist," Mr. Marvin and TIME are at one. TIME invariably applies the term "lobbyist" in the broad sense described by Mr. Marvin. TIME specifies, when necessary and pos sible, whether the "lobbying" was proper or improper...
Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11...
...Costigan began calling Mr. Marvin a "lobbyist" when the latter was first appointed by President Harding. And Mr. Marvin was a lobbyist in Washington, for the wool trade. That is why President Harding appointed him. That is politics. "Give as many people as much as they want as much of the time...
Died. Richard Woodget, 82, captain of the Cutty Sark, famed British clipper of the 70's, with which he made astounding records in the Australian wool trade (3,457 miles in eleven days); in Norfolk County, England...