Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What accounted for President Hoover's particular interest in this Congressional investigation was the manner in which his name had been bandied about by the Cuban Sugar Lobby, directed by Herbert Conrad Lakin. Lobbyist Lakin had hired as the Lobby's Lawyer Edwin Paul Shattuck, because Mr. Shattuck was a Hoover friend, had done legal work for the President, such as drawing leases. This connection Lobbyist Lakin had so magnified in widely scattered letters as to create the impression that President Hoover was cooperating with the sugar lobby. Excerpts from the letters of Lobbyist Lakin...
...years ago, former Under Secretary of State George Edwin Olds issued the now famous State Department handout to the press in which the Government of President Calles was referred to as a "Bolshevist hegemony...
Shrewd rather than witty, this comedy of marriage succeeds in being entertaining because Edwin Burke, from whose play it was adapted, sensibly avoided the deeper implications of his subject. The idea of it is that married people get along better if they are not in love with each other. A girl who has seen her sister become possessive, jealous, dissatisfied because she was in love with her husband, makes a business deal with a gentleman, stipulating that she is to run his home and live with him at a salary of $25,000 and all expenses paid. The reversal, created...
...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...