Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan succeeds we will have Social Credit before we know it!" cried an Aberhart spokesman, while the Premier himself warned: "Acceptance of our prosperity certificates by tradesmen will be purely voluntary but they will have no alternative except to take them or lose their trade...
...intercessor stood before the throne of the Almighty to bear witness. . . . It seemed to us that this cry to heaven of a people for freedom and peace could not die away unheard. That was religion in its profoundest and most mystical sense. A nation then acknowledged God through its spokesman, and laid its destiny and its life with full confidence in His hand...
...Spotlights speared down, flash bulbs popped as the old doctor put his bony hand in the young preacher's. In the press box, newshawks who had watched the pair in recent days, had seen Dr. Townsend consult Preacher Smith on every move, let him act as their joint spokesman, believed they were witnessing not a union but a usurpation...
Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...
...Hoare-Laval Deal that withdrawal of British war boats from the Mediterranean would be followed by similar reduction to peace strength of the Italian garrisons in Libya facing the British positions in Egypt which Il Duce crammed with troops to call the Baldwin bluff. Last week a Rome press spokesman confirmed: "We want to see the British ships actually leave." This week Italy emptied Libya of 40,000 troops, announced that it will leave its Libyan air force of 100 bombers and its border fortifications intact...