Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Crosby's social thesis is a protest against the urbanizing of Morrisville. Milkman Lovering is his spokesman about the beat of the hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
...Balfour Note is the foundation of the Government's policy." At this point political dopesters freely opined that Pixie Snowden's rashness would cost the Laborites whatever chance they have to win the approaching election. Though Conservatives and Liberals are as cats and dogs, a Liberal spokesman, Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, backed up the Government and declared before a cheering House, "The world must realize that once Great Britain has put her name to an undertaking she will carry it through in spite of the vicissitudes of political fortune." Anxious hours in conference with prominent Laborites had convinced...
...resolution of Senator Walsh calling for a special investigation, was opposed by the organized light and power interests, specifically the National Electric Light Association, the American Gas Association, and the joint Committee of the National Utility Associations. They were joined, among others, by banking associations. A spokesman for one of these associations, Henry R. Hayes, President of the Investment Bankers Association of America, appeared before the committee on Interstate Commerce, on January 17, 1928. He argued, among other things, that there was no problem of interstate transmission of electricity to be investigated. He said, "Based on the study made...
...matters are not to be improved by saying to Germany, you are guilty. And the Allied representatives, under the leadership of Owen D. Young are pursuing the only salutary course for the good of the world in trying to meet Dr. Schacht, the German spokesman, half way. External war debts, on such a scale as at present, are a new phenomenon in international affairs. Their effect on the national economy is not well understood, and so long as the world sticks to its determination to see them paid, payment must proceed slowly and be safeguarded as far as possible...
...kept in the background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace spokesman, figurehead and factotum...