Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist to my hotel this morning and he tried to lobby me. He said you offered him a job in Korea...
...issue of national health insurance. Congressmen react varyingly to these outside influences. Nevertheless there appears to be considerable feeling in Washington that the present lobby law, placed on the books three years ago, has reached the change of life and is now becoming impotent. This law requires registration of lobbyists and imposes heavy fines on those who fail to comply. Difficulty has arisen, however, in determining who is a lobbyist and who is not. As a result there has been much manhandling, and some outright evasion, of the lobby...
...Washington, D.C., Purcell L. Smith, lobbyist for electric utilities, was refused a divorce though he pleaded that he and his wife had not slept in the same bed for five years, although they used the same bedroom. Snapped Judge F. D. Letts: "If I were going to divorce people because husbands and wives did not sleep in the same bed, I would have to divorce half the people in town...
...anti-margarine legislation during the last two years; the Senate has a bill before it now to kill the Federal oleo tax. It has been a hard and unusual fight. A recent House measure wanted to give oleo an attractive deep Sunkist orange hue. An eminent lobbyist has stated that yellow is "butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought heroically for butter until he found that his constituents were growing...
...first legislature. It had finally discovered and approved the principle of the secret ballot (only South Carolina still held out against it). It had passed a law requiring blood tests before marriage and it had approved a program to raise the depressed level of education in Georgia (the paid lobbyist for more education was Hummon's chief crony, ex-Speaker Roy Harris...