Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wets: He received a group of Missouri Wets whose spokesman afterward declared : "We are thoroughly satisfied. . . . He believes that prohibition is a dead issue...
Negroes: He received a group of Memphis Negroes whose spokesman quoted him as being stanchly opposed to lynching. To New York City Negroes he wired: "The progress of the Negro not only in the trades but in the arts, the sciences and the professions is a truly remarkable record...
Into a San Francisco court John L. Green was haled for being drunk in a public place and cruel to an animal, his pet duck "Amos" with whom he had spent an hilarious Saturday night. Of Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck...
...club proprietor made written apology to the Japanese, but by this time Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commander of the Shanghai Special Japanese Marine Corps, was clearing his ships for action and in Tokyo the Emperor was closeted with Japanese Navy Minister Osami Nagano while the Government's press spokesman cried: "Our indignation knows no bounds...
KDKA was by no means willing last week to let priority go to WWJ without a struggle. Stubbornly declared a Westinghouse spokesman: "Westinghouse, in starting radio station KDKA, developed the term 'broadcasting.'" Unable to get around the solid fact of the Detroit station's priority on the calendar, KDKA argued that it was operating under its present call letters 16 months before WWJ was assigned its present letters on March 3, 1922. Against this was WWJ's claim that it had received its third license (in October, 1921) before KDKA applied for its first. KDKA...