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...lobbyists, led by one of Tunisia's two Senators, Antoine Colonna, held a press conference crackling with angry voltage. Dr. Jean Tremsal, top municipal officer of Tunis, declared: "Frenchmen in Tunis do not recognize any agreements which dispose of their fate and their future and that of their children and grandchildren." Cried another lobbyist: "We cannot accept. We will defend ourselves, we will defend France in spite of herself...
...quarter of a century ago White became the executive secretary of the NAACP, and a dogged lobbyist in Washington. He has since had a major hand in virtually every civil-rights law enacted. He sternly waved away the Communist Party help, and denounced Communists as exploiters of the Negro...
...state president, Meany became a highly successful legislative lobbyist. In his five years at Albany, the New York legislature passed more labor bills than it ever enacted before, or has since. When the session opened in January 1935, Meany was ready with 105 bills, and the support of Governor Herbert Lehman. Meany had learned his new job well. He became a fountainhead of information, the confidant of Democratic leaders in the legislature, a star witness in committee hearings. He slapped no back, bought no drinks. What he offered was facts, figures, arguments and Sam Gompers' old principle of political...
...race that had attracted the most nationwide attention turned out to be a clean sweep. Democrat Paul Douglas piled up almost a quarter million more votes than his Republican challenger, Lobbyist Joe Meek. Ex-Professor Douglas' hard campaigning won the votes of many Republican and independent city dwellers, especially in Chicago...
...worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association in 1939 and rose to managing director. Romney became good friends with George Mason, then president of the A.M.A. When Mason became chairman of Nash in 1948, he invited Romney along "to learn...