Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes and "poor whites" with red tape, refused to support S. T. F. U.'s roadside sit-down in Missouri, finally suspended all its officers without a hearing and called a reorganization convention in St. Louis this week. On Donald Henderson's behalf, a C. I. 0. spokesman replied that he had simply tried to bring order into a maladministered union, that Messrs. Butler & Mitchell fooled themselves in thinking they could pull out of Ucápawa and stay in C. I. O., as they hope...
...Foreign Office statement, issued but immediately withdrawn pending further developments: "The return of Czecho-Slovakia to the German Reich would signify the restoration of ancient historical conditions. . . . An unambiguous situation in Czecho-Slovakia is indispensable to the security of Germany. . . ." Significant, too, were the remarks of a British Government "spokesman" who observed that while the four Munich powers had agreed to guarantee mutilated CzechoSlovakia's external borders, her internal divisions were no concern of Britain's. That did about all that was needed to make way for an "independent" Slovak State, should the Nazis wish...
Last fortnight a number of London firms were ordered to remove the royal insignia because they had not been given permission to use it. Asked to name the offenders, the spokesman for the Associated Royal Warrant Holders replied in a shocked voice: "Such things are never revealed...
More embarrassing than Senate orations to Franklin Roosevelt was a proposal of twelve Senators with Wisconsin's cherubic La Follette as their spokesman, who introduced a modification of 1937's defeated war-referendum amendment to the Constitution which would effectively shackle the Administration with diplomatic handcuffs...
...Said Spokesman La Follette: "Americans have not forgotten the steps that made a declaration of war inevitable in 1917. War breaks out in foreign lands. The Executive decides to help one side. The nation becomes involved in secret commitments and breaches of neutrality. Then there are 'episodes' and excuses for taking sides further. . . . When it is too late to be neutral, Congress is asked to rubber stamp a declaration of war, and the people are lured by fancy slogans about fighting to end all war and save democracy. After the supreme sacrifice is made, democracy is destroyed...