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...argument had these valid points: 1) Subsidies may become a dangerous habit; 2) they might become a political weapon. But the argument relied chiefly on the premise that price ceilings are not sacred. The farm lobby boldly called for reinstitution of the law of supply & demand. Said potent Farm Lobbyist Ed O'Neal, a "little shot of inflation" won't hurt anybody...
...higher farm prices would do farmers less good financially than they would John Lewis as an argument for higher wages. The Bankhead Bill was sent back to committee, to serve only as a club in case the Administration weakened to Lewis. The Pace Bill also languished in committee. Farm Lobbyist Ed O'Neal protested that he was "dumfounded" by the President's new price orders, but his bright old eyes twinkled...
...Battle Lines. While the Senate might override the veto, experts expected the House to sustain the President. Even the greediest farm lobbyist knew that if the farmers took another grab, labor would shove up to the trough for its turn...
Bright Present. In Washington there was general agreement that Chester Davis was an excellent choice for the job. Son of an Iowa tenant farmer, he has been, successively, a farm laborer, farm owner, farm journal editor, state agricultural commissioner (Montana), farm lobbyist, and (from 1933 to 1936) head...
...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...