Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire's spokesman of last week, Japanese Military Attaché at Shanghai General Rensuke Isogai, began by saying: "I hope the Chinese people themselves will bring about all the changes necessary to produce a stable Chinese Government under a responsible leader with whom Japan can deal. . . . We believe that eventually China's 400.000,000 people will arise and overthrow the present selfish regime. . . . However if a crisis arises, Japan is fully prepared to step in and make the necessary sacrifices to establish a stable regime. . . . Only two solutions are possible-either the Nanking Government and Generalissimo Chiang...
...words of a spokesman of the group, 'the Federation is a medium through which members may legally and powerfully fight reactionary and unprograssive movements in the educational field, such as that to cut appropriations for educational purposes and eliminate courses such as music...
...poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife...
...Most distressing was the case of the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Like other clients of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, it had received, a few days before the shooting, the cartoon by J. N. ("Ding") Darling, with the legend: "But nothing ever seems to happen to Huey Long" and depicting death and disaster for practically everyone else (TIME. Sept. 16). Instead of printing the cartoon on schedule, the Spokesman-Review held it over, ran it, by mistake, on the same front page that carried the news of something very serious happening to Huey Long. Before the paper could pull...
...movement was started last November to give the commuters a more articulate position in the Harvard community, with full-fledged representation in athletics and a spokesman on the Student Council...