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...your issue of Nov. 18, referring to the Senate Committee's investigation of the Southern Tariff Association, you state: "The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden, had a stage name for collecting money...
About the Senate flew reports that Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania would appoint arch-lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy to the empty seat. Warned Senator Nye of North Dakota: "I give notice here and now that the appointee of Governor Fisher will need be one far removed from the Mellon-Grundy-Fisher machine before I shall vote for him to be seated. We cannot damn one ill-smelling Pennsylvania machine without damning the other...
Arkansas is a "backward commonwealth" according to Arch-Lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania (TIME, Nov. 11). His criticism was economic, not social. Last week out of the Ozark back country trickled bits of news which illuminated the Grundy epithet in a new and startling manner...
Digression. Called to the stand was suave, genial Colonel John Haydock Carroll, an oldtime lobbyist who proved his professional competence by charming his investigators with stories, diverting their inquiry into amusing byways, by winning their praise for frankness. Lobbyist Carroll had been hired by the U. S. Sugar Association to go to Cuba, at $4,500 per month, to investigate rumors against President Machado which threatened U. S. intervention...
...foundling with only six weeks' formal education, a newsboy who made $3.50 selling "extras" of the Lincoln assassination, Lobbyist Carroll confided that his career as a railroad lobbyist for the Burlington began at Jefferson City, Mo. Said...