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...conscience-is softening its historic opposition to easier civil divorce laws. In New York, the state legislature is about to enact, with Catholic acquiescence, the first reform bill since the 1787 passage of a statute that permits divorce only on grounds of adultery. Speaking through their Albany lobbyist, Charles Tobin Jr., New York's bishops made it clear that they would not use their spiritual authority to influence the votes of Catholic legislators, though they still question specific proposed changes, such as the granting of divorce after two years of voluntary separation...
...reason for the slowdown, of course, is that late fall is the peak of the cotton-picking season, and many Negroes are too busy toting to worry about voting. Also, without doubt, many fear white retaliation if they register. Nonetheless, admits Clarence Mitchell, N.A.A.C.P.'s chief Washington lobbyist, "we need to put in more effort." The most conspicuous absentee from the registration campaign has been Martin Luther King, who for years raised Negro suffrage as his battle cry. Since winning the Nobel Prize, "De Lawd," as his followers call King, has been so preoccupied with global affairs, such...
Household Word. Far from bowing down to Orville, the milling and baking industries banded together with unions in an outfit called the Wheat Users Committee. Led by Maurice Rosenblatt, an astute professional lobbyist with a green thumb for controversy, the committee printed 5,000,000 pamphlets attacking the proposed "bread tax," a phrase that became a household word overnight. The pamphlets, distributed free at supermarkets around the U.S., explained that if the wheat plan were passed, housewives would soon be paying more for bread as well as for flour, crackers, cookies and cereal. Before long, outraged mail against the wheat...
Died. Brigadier General John Thomas Taylor, 79, a founder in 1919 of the still powerful American Legion (some 3,000,000 members); and its top lobbyist until his retirement in 1950, an imposing figure in grey spats and walking stick, who despite repeated presidential vetoes, was instrumental in securing an estimated $13 billion in benefits for veterans prior to World War II; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...WARD, "KING OF THE LOBBY," by Lately Thomas. The story of the first real congressional lobbyist to flourish in post-Civil War Washington is a valuable history of the moneyed side of 19th century America. There were few great houses that did not welcome Sam-or his favors...