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...were trying to balk the Public Utility Act. He spied a comfortable little house on 38th Street in Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their home, they rocked back & forth, clucked...
Continuing his testimony before the Senate Committee, Lobbyist Smith revealed that during August 1935, three Senators and 50 Representatives had attended his Georgetown parties. Thereupon his onetime guests began to stampede before the Senate committee to explain and extenuate their presence at the 38th Street house. Montana's Senator James E. Murray admitted he was "laboring under the delusion that Smith was a Congressman." Washington's Representative Martin Smith woefully complained: "I certainly hope we'll do something to curb the activities of these lobbyists. There ought to be some way of identifying them." Utah...
...Fellowship of Reconciliation, with 10,000 U. S. members, became involved in doctrinaire controversy two years ago when a minority of its members favored fighting in the Class War. The National Council for Prevention of War has an able Washington lobbyist in Frederick Joseph Libby. Last autumn it sought contributions by means of a $1,000,000 "issue" of "peace bonds." The issue did not go well, although one anonymous woman bought $69,000 worth. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches seeks to promote world harmony by international exchanges of pastors. It recently heckled the Pope...
Hefty Commander Murphy refused to tell newshawks what he and Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor had heard from the President's lips. Significantly, however, he declared: "We are not even discussing the possibility of a veto...
...retired from Congres but turned up frequently in Washington as a lobbyist for the glove industry. Especially in 1922, when he got the duty on cotton gloves upped 15%, Mr. Littauer deemed his tariff lobbying a public service on behalf of his neighbors and business associates...