The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-01

 chewing former Governor of Ohio, Honest" Vic ponahey.
 Last winter when Roosevelt began getting into hot water as a result of old guard sabotage and Marvin MacIntyre bungling, he drafted West as his lobbying agent on Capitol Hill. There he did such a good job that he has been rewarded with the position of undersecretary of interior. BEN COHEN SPOTLIGHT
 Most spotlighted congressional agent of the New Deal recently is Ben Cohen, whose presence at the conferees' meeting on the holding corporation bill caused three house members to walk out.
 Cohen is one of the most acc
 tive figures in the New Deal.
 Working with his close friend,
 Tom Corcoran, he has been be-
 sind more important legislation z than any other member of the
 administration.
 He began with the securities act. This was drafted during four days and four nights while he was locked up in room in the Carlton hotel shortly after Roosevelt was inaugurated. Tn order to ensure that he would not be tempted to interrupt his endeavors, Cohen sent his one suit to the cleAners with instruc- tions not to bring it back before four days.
 Co-author of the act was Jim Landis, now a member of the securities exchange commission. At the very end. the two authors disagreed. Landis packed his bag and walked out, leaving Cohen to finish the bill by himself.
 It now stands as the law of
 the United States. almost as 1t
 came from Cohen's pen.
 Officially Cohen is in the legal division of PWA. Actually he is the most important legislative draftsman of the New Deal. He works his stenougraphers in two shifts; can't understand why they don't like to remain at the office until ? A. M. as he does.
 SLAvE-DRIvER
 1, One of the most sympathetic men in Washington, there is ale most nothing he will not do for a friend. But he is a slave-driver in his office.
 Cohen is Jewish, wealthy,
 but has no regard for money.
 His clothes are a tragedy. He
 slaves as Title as possible, and
 then in his office. Occasionally
 he sends his stenographer out
 to buy him a clean collar.
 Most efficient administration lobbyists on Capitol Hill always have been the army and navy. They go at it systematically.
 Attached to the house naval affairs committee is COMMAN- DER ISAAC c. BOGART. He was taken from the retired list and assigned to the committee. He is paid by the navy. His du- ties are not great, however, due to the fact that the president is the navy's best lobbyist. When the navy want sanything from congress these days, F. D. R. sees that his pet department gets it.
 MILITARY AGENT
 Attached to the senate military affairs committee is CAPTAIN SAM GREENWELL, astute, modest lobbyist for the war de- partment. He is paid by the army and spends all his time with the committee.
 Legislative expert of the IN. TERROR DEPARTMENT is baldish, brilliant RUFUS G.. POOLE, 32, one-time law stu dent under German Professor Ernest Freund. As apprentice to his present job, Poole drafted tax legislation for the governor of Illinois. Now all interior bills pass through his hands. Says Poole:
 "For Gods sake, don't call
 me a lobbyist. I do not do any
 button-h -holing."
 CHESTER DAVIS is the big lobbying gun-toter of the AGRI- CULTURE DEPARTMENT, and an efficient one at that. Having been trained with the farm lobby, which nearly put through the a.,.c1trokson foo onI %ta AoNyorxy- Haugen bill, Davis can pull bills and senatorial speeches out of his pocket with more legerde- main than almost anyone on the hill.
 Son of an Iowa tenant farmer. Davis worked as a farmland. printer and country editor to educate himself; interrupted his studies at Grinnel college to help his parents, who had lost their farm through foreclosure.
 SELF-LOBBYISTS
 Chief lobbyist for the POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT is big. JIM FARLEY, himself. Rarely does Jim appear on the hill, does most of his work by telephone. Jim also does lot of legislative work for the president outside of postal matters. and in these he relies also on judgy Emil Hurja and glad-hander Bill Howes. his first assistant.
 Slippery SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ROPER is his own lobbyist and a good one. Dan. who once served as clerk of a senate committee. knows all the tricks of the game. At present he is doing some heavy axine for the Bland Copeland ship sub sidy bill. which the president considers a dubious piece of leg islation and which senate pro- gressIves thought they had piF- eon-ohied.
 MADAME FANNY PERKINS also Is her own chief lobbyist for