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...backdoor man." I am not a "lobbyist." I am a lawyer. My appearances have been in public, before the proper tribunals, and in the true character of my connection with whatever cases I have presented...
TIME gladly accepts and believes able Lawyer Hurley's disclaimer of being a lobbyist. TIME also agrees that the influence of a Republican Secretary of War with a Democratic Administration is not worth...
...appeared as a balky witness two days prior. In 1926, Mr. MacCracken, a specialist on aviation law, took up his post as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics under Secretary Hoover. In October 1929, he tendered President Hoover his resignation, stayed on in Washington as a lawyer-lobbyist for nearly all the larger air transport companies. From witnesses called during the previous three weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post Office Department at which Mr. MacCracken presided. The meeting's purpose was to carve...
...Gardner, onetime Governor of North Carolina, announced that "early in the fall'' he resigned as that State's Democratic National Committeeman. Last April he went to Washington as the lawyer-lobbyist for rayon and cotton textile interests. To prove the good faith of his political resignation the White House released a letter in which the President had written him: "It is good to have friends who are so actuated by high principles...
Arthur F. Mullen balked at resigning his good job as Nebraska's Democratic National Committeeman just because he had been doing a thumping good business as a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington since last spring. Said he: "I do not claim to have any 'back door' to the White House and I practice law on my own merits alone. ... I have been a National Committeeman for many years and I have not found my profession in conflict with my office...