Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, but the explosion caused most consternation is the adjoining suite, for an odd smelling liquid began to surge through the cracks of the fire door strongly resembling the tide at the Bay of Fundy. Succor was soon summoned as were the occupants of the room, the spokesman of whom explained that a bottle of turpentine had been poured in by mistake previously, being mistaken for water. "So it wouldn't have been much good anyway," he said, as he licked of the cover of an Economics textbook and then set a match to the book...
...leading labor peace revivalist was Franklin Roosevelt. On the same day last fortnight, he recommended peace in a message to the A.F. of L., and via the "White House Spokesman" read to Industry and Labor alike a polemic on the evils of sabre-rattling. To him then went Newspaper Guildsman Heywood Broun. Let the President, said C.I.O.'s Broun, create a commission to give U.S. Labor the same cool study which was recently applied at White House order to British and Swedish industrial relations...
...Generalissimo Chiang-the 700-mile Canton-Hankow Railway. At week's end Japanese contingents landed on both sides of the Pearl River delta, one column slashing communications between Canton and Portuguese Macao on the coast, another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong or Singapore or advance southward in the Pacific; but we must and will carry out our program in China...
...action by no means insures that it or some other company may not otherwise fight the Holding Company Act, President Roosevelt and Chairman Douglas at once issued huzzas. The President said that E.B. & S.'s action was a fine example of the cooperation the White House "spokesman" requested in his "sabre-rattling" discourse fortnight ago and would certainly 'help business generally. What was more, said Mr. Roosevelt, the utility industry would discover that the so-called "death sentence" was really a health sentence and would revitalize the industry (see p. 9). Said Mr. Douglas: "When the legal, business...
...Hook of the National Association of Manufacturers declared: "There is to be no rattling of any industrial sabre so far as the nation's manufacturers are concerned. . . . Political leaders can help along similar lines. . . ." From diehards came no such gentle reproof. Instead, many a businessman pushed the "spokesman's" European analogy further, suggested that if Government and Industry sat down to peaceful conference, Business could expect Czechoslovakia's fate...