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...Last week Mr. Mackenzie, who used to be a druggist in P. T. Barnum's home town of Bethel, Conn., was reported to have received $6,900 per year as lobbyist for McKesson & Robbins, the drug firm of Crook Philip Musica-Coster...
...front for Garner is snow-topped, dandyish Roy Miller of Corpus Christi, a well-paid lobbyist for Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. Roy Miller was of course the principal speaker at Red River's send-off last week. Perched on the rear stoop of the weather-blackened Garner shanty, he addressed the gathering of country folk from Possum Trot and Coon-Soup Hollow and assembled cameramen-anticipating most of the obvious objections to Garner-for-President: that he is too old (70 now; 72 by inauguration day in 1941) ; that he is reactionary by New Deal standards, that...
...Instead of the old style Negro lobbyist content to work behind the scenes, U.S. Negroes now have a Washington representative as bold, adroit and effective as any of the white breed. He is Secretary Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last January the blacks' Mr. White sat in the Senate visitors' gallery, where Southern members indignantly pointed at him during debate on the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Lobbyist White claimed to have bagged enough votes to get the bill passed, but a hastily organized Southern filibuster kept it from...
Died. Arthur Francis Mullen, 65, longtime (1916-20; 1924-33) Nebraska Democratic National Committeeman, vice-chairman of the 1932 Democratic Campaign Committee, later a lobbyist in Washington; of gastric ulcers; in Omaha...
...Each U. S. Territory has a Delegate to Congress (or Resident Commissioner in Washington), who sits in the House of Representatives, has the right to speak, not vote, and acts in practice as a sort of official lobbyist...