Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the Labor Party Conference, political spokesman for the T. U. C., adopted a resolution threatening a general strike should His Majesty's Government declare war. Last week organized British labor was out to kill that resolution. One after another the leaders of the T. U. C. agreed that the world is now menaced by Germany and Japan. They were heckled by pacifist Labor leaders such as Frank Rowlands who shouted, "In 1914 Socialist [Labor] leaders betrayed labor when the War began, but today it seems that the new leaders are betraying us in advance...
...unwritten law of succession in the American Bankers Association is that at each annual election the second vice president shall accede to the first vice presidency and the first vice president shall accede to the presidency. U. S. Banking thus picks its official spokesman two years in advance. Many things have happened in the last two years?particularly to Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of New Orleans' Hibernia National Bank, who was elected second vice president of the ABA in the dark autumn...
...this slap by Japan in China's face, Japan also slapped at the Great Powers, signatories of the Washington and London naval treaties. She did not, to be sure, stage Japanese naval maneuvers off San Francisco or Liverpool. But in Tokyo the official Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Eiji Amau, a great adept at diplomatic nose-thumbing, called in white correspondents, gave an impressive exhibition...
That the quarrel grew really hot was clear when Japanese reporters, close respectively to Mr. Hirota and Admiral Osumi, claimed for each that he worsted the other. At the Foreign Office, Spokesman Amau, cheering for his chief Mr. Hirota, announced: "Admiral Osumi has at length recognized the Foreign Office's constitutional right to decide the method of conducting foreign affairs." Cheering for the Admiral, his spokesman said that Mr. Hirota could indeed choose his "method" but that the "substance" of Japan's naval demands to the Great Powers would be dictated by her Navy. Prognostications were that Japan will...
...where he has Uncle Sam on the cross," explained a spokesman. "Radical artists always put Labor on the cross. The thing is full of bourgeois ideology. No radical artist would have made fun of the domestic affairs of the Roosevelt family. The fellow is a bourgeois...