Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well that cleans that up," came back Groucho, and so the interview began. The brothers, casting off their stage characteristics, but still sprinkling humor in their remarks, freely talked of their lives and their views on the theatre Strangely enough, the head spokesman was Chico, of the inimitable Italian accent, the oldest of the four...
...practical handbook of How to Become President says: Acquire a wise, devoted friend who will work and speak for you as you would for yourself. Obviously, the aspirant cannot go about telling people he wants to be President. He must have an alter ego without egotism. This friend and spokesman should have political wisdom, like Mr. Smith's Judge Olvany and Mr. Wilson's Col. House. He should not be chosen carelessly, as Charles Curtis chose loud Matthew Quay Glaser (1928), nor should he have an excess of zeal as did Charles Dawes's Col. Ed Clifford...
Fuss-budgety Senator Fess seemed embarrassed. After taking time to discuss and think over his statement, he last week told newsgatherers that he had made it as an individual, not as party spokesman. He said also that his mind was open to modification recommendations from the Wickersham Commission. But he did not retract his theory that the party must not weasel on Prohibition, that it must...
What makes copper unique is the manner in which its control rests in the hands of a few men. Fortnight ago these men met in Manhattan. Leading U. S. representative was Cornelius Francis Kelley, president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and Copper Exporters, Inc., chairman of Copper Institute and spokesman for 25 big U. S. producers. From Belgium there had come M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societe Generale des Minerals, Belgian outlet for the Katanga Mines in the Belgian Congo, and his associate, Camille Gutt...
...Said Spokesman Robinson: "It's always understood that if you go away to play football you will be taken care of. ... We got wind of a rumor several days ago that we were all going to be dropped to shift for ourselves after the football season . . . felt that we ought to get something besides food and flop and tuition. . . . Most of us will get jobs on ships until another football season rolls around, because we can't catch on at any other college-certainly not this year...