Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrown on Relief. The industry has always outdone itself in keeping its workers employed in slack times for fear of losing what few skilled lace-makers there are in the U. S. And wearing gay lace boutonnieres, 500 of them appeared in Washington to join their employers in protest. Spokesman for lace employees, however, was not a labor leader: but Executive Director Clement J. Driscoll of the American Lace Manufacturers Association. Said...
...railroad station in St. Paul a spokesman among the departing colonists yowled because the Government had promised them Pullman sleepers and here they were having to ride in plain day coaches. Embarking at San Francisco, 39 colonists staged a near-insurrection because they saw none of the radios, sewing machines and washing machines the Government had promised. Other complaints filtered down from the North. The Government had promised full medical service, but there was only one doctor for some 2,000 men, women, children. All children and most adults were reported mildly sick, vastly terrified at the thought...
Rousingly Chamber and Senate answered with smash votes of confidence 324-160 and 233-15 respectively. On international exchange the franc rose as the pound, dollar, fell, carrying up with it the Swiss franc, guilder and lira. Displeased were French Communists and extreme Socialists, their spleeny spokesman being Pinko Deputy Leon LaGrange who had declared in debate, "The 200 families who rule this country are opposing the National will!" These villains, Deputy La-Grange said, are headed by "the regents of the Bank of France, de Rothschild and de Wendel!" In French villages sage peasants with gold in their mattresses...
...year-old chairman of Britain's Royal Arms Inquiry Commission (TIME, March 4), Sir John Eldon Bankes, last week watched his eminently dignified investigation skid off into the ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet...
...said a spokesman who objected strongly to being named, "wouldn't of gave a moll like that a job washing glasses in a Speak...