Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stratton's platform is a supplement, on post-war problems of the U.S. and Britain, to the May issue of FORTUNE, which he mailed to every important Democrat in Idaho. During three terms in the State Senate, he never attended a lobbyist's party, never asked a fellow Senator for a vote, and passed three controversial issues by the main strength of his eloquence...
...cannot help but be a profiteer," declared James E. Barnes of the Todd Shipyards Corp., testifying to the flabbergasted Senate Naval Affairs Committee. Mr. Barnes has been a Washington lobbyist for 27 years, and he must have been tired of all the nonsense Congress has heard and uttered about war profits. But Lobbyist Barnes, who truly said, "I am a very prolific witness," left the Senators more confused than ever...
...from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts to give them a ceiling. Result: farm prices led all prices upwards; farm income reached an alltime high of $11,200,000,000 for the year. Two days after Pearl Harbor, Ed O'Neal, for 17 years a farm lobbyist, remarked: "For the first time in history a farmer can plant a crop and know that he will get fair prices...
...Werner Karl Gabler is a Zurich-born Swiss who is also a New Dealer. He has been in the U.S. about five years, taken out his first papers, once served as ghost writer to the late philanthropic Edward A. Filene, became well known in Washington as economist-lobbyist for the liberal American Retail Federation. Suddenly, at the suggestion of the Swiss Minister (whose wife is Henry Wallace's sister), Gabler was offered a new retainer: the I. G. Chemie. His assignment: to negotiate the sale of Chemie's 90% interest in General Aniline to Americans, thus get Aniline...
Most conspicuous eligibles were the farmers and their Washington representatives: men like the Farm Bureau's lobbyist Ed O'Neal, whose hefty shoulder was behind the Fulmer (85%-of-parity) Act; like "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who has already tangled with Henderson; like Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, who combines a farm constituency with a weakness for greenback schemes. Such men were already talking opposition to any price control until farm prices reach 100% of parity, or even more. But since parity is a variable figure (related to a cost-of-living index) and since higher...