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...respect to the principle involved in the proposed legislation or the method adopted to put the principle into effect, is an endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when you say, "And Mr. Marvin was a lobbyist in Washington, for the wool trade." I have never been a "lobbyist" in Washington for the wool trade, or for any other trade, and have never received one dollar in compensation for representing any manufacturer...
...have heard of the Harvard type but never of the Harvard Business School type to which you refer in the middle column of p. 9 of your issue of March...
Will you be good enough to correct an item which appeared in your issue of April 2 [p. 13]? I refer to the note about Ivan Mestrovitch, the eminent Jugoslav sculptor, of whom you say that "he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes...
Perhaps, by the time this suggestion reaches the correct point of contact, the baptism will already have been perpetrated. I refer to a name for Lindbergh's new plane [TIME, April...
...into more detail, but the reader turning from page to page will be delighted with the excellence of the material as well as the care that has been shown in the cypos raphy. I who understand those things say it. In spite of our resolution we are persuaded to refer the reader especially to pages...