Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This produced in Rome profound explosions of Fascist wrath. At the Dictator's press bureau, run by his affable son-in-law Count Gelasio Ciano, the official spokesman said furiously of Abyssinia's Emperor "He was 'being smart!' Our Minister to Abyssinia has informed the Abyssinian Government that their unilateral effort will not stand...
...last week the commercial counselor, speaking of China's present financial crisis brought on by President Roosevelt's kiting of the price of silver (TIME, Aug. 20), purred: "It is quite natural that China should look to Japan for a loan." Franker, the Japanese Legation's spokesman hissed: "If we started to make demands on China we would have about 1,000 to make, not merely 21 nor any such conveniently small number. . . . There is only one sign post: China can't get along without Japan; Japan can't get along peacefully without China. This...
...Worcester-born, a graduate of Holy Cross College and Harvard Law, Frank Dowd Comerford of Boston is called biggest and brightest of New England's younger utilities tycoons. President of New England Power Association, which controls a string of 50 gas and electric companies, he was designated spokesman for the industry when Governor Curley launched his drive against Massachusetts utility rates few weeks ago. Last week Utilitarian Comerford took over another big job when he was elected president of independent Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, New England's largest single operating electric utility. He will remain with...
...there are rumors of a grim resurgence among the ranks of House and Dormitory domestics. No longer will they tolerate the opprobrious name which swept into acceptance at Harvard in the slackening of standards of the Post War period. They demand their ancient and honorable title of "goody." As spokesman for their cause a goody of Kirkland House has come forward, deposed, and stated it as her irrevocable opinion that "biddy" is not a maidservant, but a fowl. "We might have been chickens once," she said, "but we want to be called "goodies...
...only four houses. Last week the Royal Warrant Holders' Association commissioned him to do his fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed a conspicuous service to the Empire, or to the widow of such a person...