Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Gropper, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Sloan. Ever since copyright laws have been in existence it has been possible for artists or owners of pictures to copyright them, prevent their reproduction without due authority. Explaining last week's manifesto, grey-haired Spokesman John Sloan, famed painter of New York street scenes, longtime president of the Society of Independent Artists, pointed out that what he and his distinguished friends and their recently engaged legal counsel were aiming at was not a new copyright law, but an amendment of the present copyright...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth is understood to have tried to see His Majesty as a spokesman for the "King's Men," now grown to 90 M.P.'s and their leader Mr. Winston Churchill who keynotes: "If an abdication were to be hastily extorted, the outrage so committed would cast its shadow forward across many chapters of the future history of the British Empire!'' Mr. Baldwin is again with the King at the snuggery from 6:15 to 7:30. Says Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in mortal terror lest the Irish Free State make whatever...
...President Mordecai Johnson, persuaded the strikers to call a truce while he considered their demands: 1) better football equipment, 2) jobs for the team payable in board, 3) a football training table and dietitian, 4) an experienced full-time coach, 5) a team physician and trainer. Said a football spokesman, called upon to explain the Virginia Union desertion: "We were too hungry to get in there and battle those big country boys full of ham and kale. . . . Now this Lincoln team, they got a training table and eat good. ... All the fellows want to play in this game...
...Jean) Paul Getty, 43, Oxford-educated spokesman for the Los Angeles Getty oil interests, who let one of his representatives, Harold L. Rowland, state his attitude toward the merger of two Tide Water operating subsidiaries with the parent holding company. Although his father left an estate of $21,000,000, Jean Paul Getty, an only son, had to make his own way in the oil world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer...
...Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History put on exhibition a Neanderthal man's tooth. "While this is a small addition," said a museum spokesman, "it is a highly valued one, as few if any other museums in America possess similar material...