Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected a Danzig coup last weekend. The week-end passed without one, but early this week so many alarming rumors (and war preparations) had spread over Europe that Adolf Hitler apparently decided that the hour was not quite as propitious as he had thought. An "authorized" (but unidentified) Nazi spokesman delivered an extraordinary announcement, prompted by Neville Chamberlain's statement to the House of Commons that armed Germans had already entered Danzig. Said he: "We have no desire to go against the territorial integrity of Poland. If we had wanted to let the matter come to military action...
...Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS. Substitute: Ford Summer Hour, on the air since June 11 with light, instead of symphonic, music and, instead of sermons by Ford Spokesman William J. Cameron, chats about River Rouge plant doings by a Rouge reporter (Ken Laub...
...local labor federation, C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unionists still work together for their common aims while their testy big shots snarl in the headlines. Last week this harmony had reached such proportions as to demand the attention of A. F. of L.'s national spokesman...
...London Times cautiously recommended that the British Government at least look into the question of economic sanctions, and Conservative and Laborite M. P.'s joined in demanding firm action. There was even talk of retaliation against the many Japanese citizens living in the British Empire, and a Government spokesman broadcast the warning that Britain might be forced into "countermeasures for the protection of British rights." Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax called Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu to his office and gave him the talking to of his life. At Tokyo Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador, also protested, conferred...
...version of the Mosaic law-a consul for a consul-last week countered Britain's expulsion of spyster German Consul General Reinhardt with a demand that England withdraw Consul General Donald St. Clair Gainer from Vienna. Charge against Consul General Gainer was also dabbling in espionage. Fumed a spokesman for the British Consul General: "Sheer nonsense seems a clear case of retaliation...