Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was well-known modern history, but not the sort of thing the Cabinet officers of one nation say about another. The reaction, as expected, was brief and bitter. Said a Foreign Office spokesman for Japan: "Regrettable." Said the semi-official German Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz: "The German nation does not want lessons from any quarter on the subject of national freedom, self-determination and its best interests." Wrote Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, in Giornale d'Italia: "We should like to believe his words were never uttered, but if they are authentic they constitute...
...vote was only the first step of a procedure which may take six months to work out under the complex machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act. And the unions might still strike when this arbitration period ended. Said Railway Labor's spokesman, Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association last week: "Wage cuts are out of the question...
SHANGHAI, Thursday--A spokesman for the Chinese War Office in Hankow today said that divisions of Chinese regular army and scores of guerrilla bands were attacking the Japanese at more than a dozen points along an irregular line of about 1,000 miles from Hang-chow, capital of Chekiang Province, through Anhwei, Shantung, Shansi and Hopei Provinces. He said that 15,000 Japanese soldiers have been killed in the fighting in South Shantung Province since May 1, and that 3,000 have been killed this week...
...heard a lot of talk about the expanding they could do if they got the right kind of money. We have the money and we will lend it to them right. Not for refinancing but for anything that will put men to work." Back cracked the industry's spokesman, President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern: "Greatest immediate requirement of the utility industry is a large inflow of common capital indispensable for much-needed additional construction. Loans by the government will not solve the problem. The solution is dependent on a restoration of confidence on the part of potential utility...
...spokesman for Mrs. Wilbur K. Jordan, Dean of undergraduates, said yesterday that no "censorship" had been invoked, and expressed the opinion that the H. D. C. had been wanting to get rid of Radcliffe girls for some time...