Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Official Washington sizzled at the disclosures in the Shearer case. In connection with the Geneva affair came revelations of flagrant Shearer lobbying in Congress. The generalizing minds of Congressmen expanded easily from one lobby to all lobbying. Senators Borah, Shortridge, Robinson, Black, La Follette cried out for more investigations. Senator Caraway of Arkansas and Representative Gibson of Vermont introduced resolutions calling for a "thorough investigation." Soon lobbyists may have to lobby for the very existence of lobbying...
...Brinkman '24, C. R. Spruill, W. D. Templeton, F. D. Scott, M. W. Royse, P. W. Gates, J. A. Ross, F. W. McVeagh '21, J. J. Glessner '25, Jeffries Wyman, Jr. '23, W. C. Heilman '00, G. B. Baker, Jr. '25, H. Brown, P. S. Bauer '26, E. S. Robinson, S. H. Harris, E. P. Herring, T. H. Werner, C. L. Bickle, W. E. Sedgwick '22, Allan Evans '24, S. I. Stone '24, C. L. Bennet, E. R. James, E. J. Simmons '25, Bernard De Voto '18, and F. O. Matthiessen...
Opium Ships. Generals Couzens of Michigan and Robinson of Arkansas suddenly moved to insert a provision in the tariff bill making the owners as well as the skippers of ships subject to fine for bringing illicit opium to the U. S. As they opened fire, Republicans and Democrats alike turned their guns on the opium fleet. For a few moments a hot fusillade from both sides poured into the invaders lying at anchor off the shore...
...present his assistant is lone Robinson of California, onetime helper of U. S. Artist Rockwell Kent. In the Kent Manhattan household she lived for a year, working on colored illustrations for Voltaire's Candide. Later she went to southern France, hired a peasant's house, planned to stay and paint. The house had no hot water, no heating, no light; Artist Robinson fell sick, returned to Los Angeles, whence she went to Mexico City...
Died. Jesse Lynch Williams, playwright (Why Marry? Why Not?), author (Princeton Stories, The Stolen Story, Other Newspaper Stories); of a heart attack; at the home of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; in Herkimer...