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...Samuel Ward was no mere social ornament. For more than 20 years, he was Washington's most influential lobbyist-not the first but certainly the most spectacular of that maligned but necessary breed...
...first comic strip to go to war. Later Caniff gave up the youthful Terry for the more mature Steve Canyon, a seat-of-the-pants pilot who fights the battles of the Air Force so effectively that Caniff was once denounced by a Congressman as a highly paid military lobbyist...
Instrumental. In 1961, Treasury Secretary Dillon tapped Fowler to be his No. 2 man; Dillon needed a tested administrator and, as a Republican, also wanted Washington-wise Democrat Fowler to help push fiscal policies through a Democratic Congress. As chief lobbyist for the Administration's 1964 tax-cut bill. Fowler pored over the Congressional Record daily, analyzing countless pages of debate, spent hours wheedling Congressmen in the halls-and played a major role in finally getting the measure passed. However, Fowler tangled with Kennedy Economic Adviser Walter Heller. Their differences were mostly kept behind the scenes. But Fowler questioned...
...whose suit initiated the Baker affair were clarified. It was learned how Baker's vending machine company Serv-U had grown in two years into a $3.5-million business with contracts with several aero-space firms. The committee also looked into Baker's financial dealings with Fred Black, a lobbyist for North American Aviation, a corporation to which Baker had leased his vending machines. These were but a few of the business scandals...
...investments. He had given the back of his hand to what he called the "total, irremediable, radical rottenness of our whole social, industrial, financial and political system." Nevertheless, he could not stay away from the "rottenness." Impressed by the Cuban revolt in 1895, he became Washington's fiercest lobbyist for Cuban independence, pressured his close friend Henry Cabot Lodge and other senators to intervene...