Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoulders were promptly shrugged in Paris at the French Foreign Office. Its official spokesman said off the record that no such traffic exists. That it does exist no serious correspondent or commentator on the Far East has questioned for many months...
Japan is not in the habit of doing much rattling before she strikes. Thus French Navy and Colonial officials were gravely alarmed when the official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office said on the record: "Japan might be compelled in self-defense to take such measures as she deems necessary...
Recently George Horace Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion asked Professor Bagley and Teachers College's famed Emeritus Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, leading spokesman for the Progressives, to define the Progressive v. Traditional issue in a question to be put to voters. After two days' travail, each of the professors brought Dr. Gallup half of a 110-word question. Dr. Gallup threw up his hands, abandoned the idea. The question...
Among his many roles, Franklin Roosevelt sometimes plays a sort of policeman, signaling stop & go to commodity prices. Year and a half ago he signaled stop with such success that prices broke the world around. Three weeks ago the "White House Spokesman" warned that certain commodity prices must not be allowed to run away. Copper, for example, should not be allowed to reach 18? again. Though copper has often been a runaway (in 1916 reaching an all-time high of 31.89?), it got no higher than 17? last year, then dropped to 9? this summer...
When Archibald MacLeish wrote his dramatic poem for radio, The Fall of the City, last year, he discovered several notable means and ends. For one thing he showed that the most persuasive of classic dramatis personae, the narrator or chorus, was none other than the most accepted public spokesman in 20th-century life, the radio announcer. The announcer could describe events in a way that would make them immediately believed...