Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch it up-presumably by kicking out President Martin. Cried Wyndham Mortimer, chief spokesman for the rump officials: "We need a C. I. 0. director with power to pull us out. We are a very sick union...
...Minister Georges Bonnet urged Leftist Spain to think twice before sending bombers over Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts...
...Last week this familiar situation was attacked from a new angle by Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Eccles is a smalltown banker from Utah and so ardent a believer in New Deal theories of credit control that he has often been a White House spokesman on them. He wrote last week in reply to a letter from Senator Vandenberg...
...spokesman for the majority of the A. M. A.'s 110,000 doctor-members, Dr. Morris Fishbein, arguing that "Every one should have good medical service. But we insist that the practice of medicine is a doctor's problem. The doctor is the only one entitled by training, by experience, and by law to take care of the sick. Medicine is still a profession. It must never become a business or a trade, never the subservient tool of a governmental bureaucracy...
...last resort in a desperate situation," Wendell Willkie, president of vast Commonwealth & Southern Corp. and sometime spokesman for the utility industry, five months ago proposed to Franklin Roosevelt that the Government buy up his utilities in TVA territory. What makes the utility situation seem desperate to such men as Wendell Willkie are two New Deal policies: 1) direct competition with the utilities through such projects as TVA and Bonneville Dam; 2) abolition of all except geographically integrated utility pyramids, which is a main feature of the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Result has been the bitterest...