The Lobbyist and the Senator - Two Stories

Jessie, as the lobbyist for the Minimum Wage Commission, timidly took on a hardcore Senator who believed a woman’s place was “in the home”. She charmed him with stories of her weekend canoeing adventures on the Potomac, and persuaded him to support the Minimum Wage Bill. From then on, he supported her. Story 2: Jessie exposed the meat packers scandal, which finally elicited a proclamation from President Wilson, putting a stop to the gangster-like monopoly. Jessie used her wits when treading dangerously close to being discovered by the Chicago meat moguls, who swindled her own father out of his herd of beef years earlier. No one ever knew who blew the scandal wide open.