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...this? What their patients? Who would run U. S. medicine? A sentimental sociologist like Secretary of Labor Perkins or a political Relief Administrator like Mr. Hopkins? Or a doctor like Surgeon General Parran? Or a medical oligarchy like the A. M. A.'s Secretary-General Manager Olin West, Lobbyist William Creighton Woodward and Editor Morris Fishbein...
...Senator Hugo La Fayette Black of Alabama re-introduced a resolution for the Senate's Labor Committee, of which he is chairman, to investigate or recommend legislation "to provide a national public health policy." When such a resolution first was presented to the Senate, A. M. A. Lobbyist Woodward got it squelched. Now, said Senator Black, "the Association seems ready to co-operate...
...Every professional lobbyist, every professional politician and every representative of greed and monopoly is hoping and praying that your work will be a failure. . . . Your constituents do not expect perfection. They know that it is human to err, but they do expect and have a right to expect absolute honesty, unlimited courage and a reasonable degree of efficiency and wisdom. . . . From now on Nebraska has a right to expect a business administration...
...biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause of the Interstate Commerce...
...political career also began early, as a member of Boston's Common Council and of the Massachusetts Legislature. After the War, Samuel Gompers called him to Washington to mix labor and politics as a lobbyist for the A. F. of L. He proved an expert at it, affable, friendly, fair, efficient. He systematically canvassed every member of Congress, treated them to persuasion but not to parties, being himself a teetotaler, having joined in youth the St. Peter & St. Paul Total Abstinence Society...