National Affairs: Economy Lobby

Last week the National Economy League, organized last summer by Archibald Roosevelt & friends to lop some $450,000.000 from the $1,000,000,000-per-year appropriations for veterans, went into action at the Capitol for the first time as a political lobby. Pitted against the League is the full force of the American Legion and its super-lobby.

William Marshall Bullitt, onetime (1912-13) Solicitor General of the U. S., appeared as N. E. L.'s volunteer lobbyist before a joint Congressional committee investigating veterans' legislation. Amid a barrage of statistics he set forth savings proposed by N. E. L.:

ΒΆ$140,000,000 by eliminating all civil disability payments to...

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