Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead of 133, the new Legislature is perhaps even more easily influenced than the old. Governor Cochran's legislative spokesman and the session's outstanding member, 35-year-old Charles Albert Dafoe of Tecumseh (fourth cousin of the Dionne Quintuplets' Doctor) observed last week: "It remains to be seen whether or not a small membership will oe more susceptible to lobbying by special interests. I believe...
...Government swiftly set up a court of inquiry to consider the busmen's claims. Chief spokesman for the busmen was raucous Ernest Bevin, general secretary of London's Transport & General Workers' Union and one of Britain's most powerful Labor chiefs. Secretary Bevin had a double job on his hands: he had to get the best possible terms for the striking busmen and at the same time prevent the strike spreading to the subways and trams...
Last week Dr. Morris Fishbein, longtime spokesman for the American Medical Association, revealed why his voice has been silent in radio, lecture hall and conference room for almost a month. Following a severe cold Dr. Fishbein had developed paralysis of one side of his face. Wrote he in his imitation Pepys' Diary in the A. M. A. Journal: "It seems strange to see one side of the countenance so cold and fishy. Belike it would be well to save this appearance to bestow upon the quacks." Specialists assured Dr. Fishbein that ''sooner or later" he will recover...
...Bradley's jubilee dinner last week he was given a check for $2,000. Catholicism was represented, unofficially, by his good friend Judge John McGoorty, who, though a devout Catholic, is often called "assistant pastor of Peoples Church." Spokesman for Jewry was popular Rabbi Mann, who rejoiced that Adolf Hitler declined to allow Preston Bradley in Germany last year. Prayed Rabbi Mann, in Hebrew: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
...Civil War still depended largely on decisions yet to be made by Europe's Baldwins, Blums, Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins. Il Duce with a characteristic gesture last week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position to estimate its exactness. Laymen...