Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards for him to be a labor President. Even before President Roosevelt turned away from the 'Little Steel' strikers, Lewis knew that public office-the Presidency in particular -cannot at this stage of American affairs be the unconditioned property of labor. Lewis is the chief spokesman of labor; in the White House he could no longer be that. While a labor President, backed by a majority in Congress, could make great contributions toward winning security for labor's millions, a President dependent on the support of other strata of the population would have to heed various pressures...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...
Second of three spring concerts by the Federal Music Project will be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8:15 o'clock under the direction of Alexander Thiede, it was announced by an official spokesman...
...Government's aim was announced as "good relations with all neighbors." However, a Palace spokesman added meaningly: "His Majesty's Government will be conscious of the realities of recent Danubian developments"-i.e., the Nazification of Austria...
This week Generalissimo Franco replied directly to a protest by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with a note saying that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that...