Every argument that could be tortured by the lobbyists into a criticism of the bill was openly and secretly brought to bear on the members.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
It was however, as I learned later, a bold Pro-Peary movement fostered by lobbyists whose conscience was eased by drippings from the Hubbard-Bridgeman Arctic Trust, but I still believed that the dictates of National prestige were such that the usual white-washing and rail-roading process could not be adopted in a question of such International importance.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
He assumed a very important look, much the same as the one I took on when the lobbyists began calling me "Senator."
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett