Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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. The week's developments: Pottery. Fredrick L. Koch is a Tariff Commission expert on ceramics. During the Senate tariff hearings he prompted Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have...
...prepared press statements for the Senator, supplied him with technical arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that Eyanson was the hired man of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association, which praised his work as "splendid" and assured him that he had "made good" and given the association "more than we ever bargained for." Employment of Eyanson by Senator Bingham produced financial complications. As the manufacturers' agent. Lobbyist Eyanson was continuously paid by them his salary ($10,000 per year). As a Senate...
...Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week...
...Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶ Met and adjourned for three days. ¶ Met again and adjourned for another three days...
...officers who abuse the law. They recalled that he was one of a dozen lawyers who in 1920 investigated and made a blistering report on illegalities committed by the Department of Justice in harassing, herding up and deporting Red suspects after the War. Also they were mindful of the work Professor Chafee did during the great Federal coal investigation of 1923 when he made his report on the infringement of civil liberties in mining areas...