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...Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington. No, Mr. Burroughs stoutly declared, Ben Grey was not a lobbyist...
...John Garner's old buddies and political campaign managers is Roy Miller, lobbyist for the Texas sulfur interests. Mr. Miller last December started a Garner-for-1940 boom with a celebration near Mr. Garner's birthplace in Coon Soup Hollow, Tex. In January, the Vice President did not stop Representative Milton West of Brownsville from putting into the Congressional Record the nominating speech in which Roy Miller said...
...contention, which started when Satevepost recently serialized excerpts from her story, Widow Wilson furnished plenty of material. Friends of Woodrow Wilson's faithful Irish Secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty, now a high-powered Washington lobbyist, hotly dispute Mrs. Wilson's accounts that he 1) tried to get Wilson interested in the since exploded story that Warren Gamaliel Harding had Negro blood; 2) faked a Wilson endorsement of James Middleton Cox for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. And, though by U. S. etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat...
...Morgenthau relieved him of most of his important duties. But in Washington, where business often mixes with politics, Chip was meanwhile establishing a reputation as the Capital's greatest little mixer. After newshawks caught him and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre at a hotel room party given by the lobbyist for Utilitarian Howard Colwell Hopson, the roly-poly New Deal hobgoblin, Chip resigned. Presently, through Jim Farley's good offices, Chip bobbed up again as secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Today he and his beauteous second wife, "Evie" Walker, who has become a Washington chitchat writer (and last...
...engaging frankness of this engraved announcement titillated Washington last week. It indicated that the result of Franklin Roosevelt's one Purge success was to supply Washington with one more high-powered lobbyist. For the rest, that success looked singularly hollow: the important House Rules Committee was in such a mess that the New Deal gave up hope of organizing it before Congress met this week. Illinois' old Representative Adolph Joachim Sabath to whom chairmanship of the committee was scheduled to pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation...