Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spokesman for the council, Union Pacific's polo-playing Chairman W. Averell Harriman read the President a long statement, approving most of the New Deal's aims, mildly criticizing a few and winding up: "Mr. President, we look to you to give us the leadership around which we can rally." While Mr. Harriman was plowing through the statement the President jotted down a few notes. After an hour and a half the council trooped out, pronouncing the conference a great success...
...Richberg talking until just before their 5 p. m. appointment. What went on when they entered the President's office was not disclosed. It appeared afterward that while there had been no criminations from either side, there was precious little in the way of concrete results. Acting as spokesman as the group emerged after an hour and a half, Mr. Sloan declared: "All of us agree we have a better understanding of each other's problems. . . ." Steelman Weir, who is terrified by reporters, avoided comment by saying over & over: "I want to go to Bermuda. I want...
...liberal-minded Memphis churchman, performed his pastoral tasks last week with vigor which amazed observers, he insisted that his huskiness of voice, his loss of weight from 200 pounds to 100 pounds or less, were the result of a recent attack of influenza. In Chicago, Dr. Morris Fishbein, perennial spokesman for U. S. Medicine, expressed doubt that Dean Noe had lived on oranges for a year, cracked: "The stomach has no religion...
Pelley. As spokesman for U. S. railroads, worst hit of all U. S. industries, President J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads declared: "During the first nine months of the year 1937 railway employment was consistently greater than in 1936. During the final three months, however, a reversal . . . brought the average for that period down to 3% below 1936. The decline was an accelerating one, amounting to 32,000 men in November and 73.500 in December...
...gold nose clip and a strange gold effigy ornament complete the list of things lost. Asked about the latter article, a museum spokesman declared, "We think it was a frog, at least the catalogue says so, but we have forgotten about...