Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principal spokesman for musical Zionism is fiery, bald-headed Lazare Saminsky, a Russo-Manhattanite who not only writes Israelite music, but books and articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...
...babbling, excited delegation of mothers and teachers, representing 260 units of the Parent-Teacher Association. 50.000 families. 150,000 children, cornered beaming, bespectacled Dr. Herman N. Bundesen. Board of Health president, in his City Hall office, asked his help in combatting double features. "We feel.'' said their spokesman, "that they are detrimental to the health of our children, due to the many hours spent inside the theatre, depriving them of their rightful amount of outdoor exercise and rest, and resulting in fatigue, eyestrain and overwrought nerves. . . . Two-and-a-half hours is long enough for any child...
According to the fund office, there was no definite assignment of solicitation among University employees, and the method of collection has not been revealed, but the drive spokesman said that there had been a "thorough system of canvass...
...newly elected parliament, the Supreme Soviet (TIME, Jan. 24), closed last week in Moscow. During its closing days, spectators continued to mingle and vote with the elected deputies. One day platoons of soldiers and sailors (not armed) enlivened parliamentary procedure by marching in, filling all the aisles. Their spokesman assured the Supreme Soviet: "This is the most democratic parliament in the world...
Declared the President's spokesman: "Hundreds of Jewish refugees from Europe, whom we admitted to Ecuador as colonists on the understanding that they would become farmers, have set themselves up as businessmen instead...