Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week disclaimed political activity, remarked that, as chairman of the General Relief Fund for Distressed Spanish Women and Children (both Leftists and Rightists), it was natural enough for her to go to Spain. "I was favorably impressed," said she, "with conditions in the districts I visited." Retorted the Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister's sister-in-law explained...
Among these agile regionalists none is subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans...
...worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas, and one derisive titter at this display was worth a titterer's life. Brooding one time over a ludicrously unfounded case of discrimination, he asked Stoyan, the gang's spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan was that a gang of Balkan peasants could lay a track good enough to carry the Northern Pacific's Fast Mail...
...Under those circumstances, what would you expect the President, as the lead er and spokesman of his party to do? ... He is merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...
...Government's vital statistics bureau announced that marriages in the Ostmark (onetime Austria) numbered 4,126 in July, almost quadrupling Austria's 1,092 in July 1937. Delighted, a bureau spokesman announced: "It is hoped that next year's birthrate in the Ostmark will be at least double that of 1938." Since August 1, however, more than 10,000 applications for divorce have been filed in Vienna. Reason: under papal law in Austria, a marriage in which one spouse was Roman Catholic was indissoluble by divorce; now that the Ostmark is under German law, divorce...