Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor considers that Secretary of State Cordell Hull acted with gross misjudgment in persuading the Standard Vacuum Oil Company to cancel the Rickett concession," said the Emperor's spokesman, adding that His Majesty told Mr. Engert hotly: "We need the co-operation of somebody?instead of obstacles, OBSTACLES...
After a short wait, a guard ushered the newsmen into the long, narrow partners' room with its line of flat-topped desks. The desks were deserted but at the far end beneath a looming portrait of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. stood the firm's traditional spokesman, Partner Thomas Lamont, flanked by Partners George Whitney and Harold Stanley. The newsmen crowded in about the fireplace while Mr. Lamont announced the resignation of three Morgan partners, two partners of Drexel & Co., the Philadelphia affiliate...
Since His Majesty's Government were not disposed to crack down alone on the Royal Italian Government, British diplomats in Paris tried to get something out of French Premier Pierre Laval. Silent as an Egyptian mummy, the Premier had his official spokesman declare with fine French feeling: "Our heart is with England, but it is equally with Italy...
...Ambassador William Christian Bullitt has several times given Moscow correspondents reason to cable that he was about to make vigorous protest on orders from Washington. Last week, as the World's crack revolutionists prepared to return to their homelands, the Moscow Congress made curious overtures. Its Keynote Spokesman, fiery George Dimitroff, implied in an adroit speech that the Communist Party may support Franklin Roosevelt in the next election because his defeat might enable forces now opposing U. S. Communism to give it a body blow...
...wild behavior. In 1785, to prove his sincerity, he married her secretly, thus establishing a royal mystery which was not solved until the discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when anti-Catholic feeling was strong. Through a spokesman in the House of Lords, he publicly denied his marriage. Debts of ?600,000 made him desperate. Mrs. Fitzherbert's rival, Lady Jersey, intrigued to break their relationship. Suddenly the prince abandoned Mrs. Fitzherbert and officially took to wife Princess Caroline of Brunswick in order to raise money quickly...