Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid vast relief, Herr Hitler made short work of pretending to read the scrolls. A Saar spokesman keynoted that the years since the Saar was placed under League rule have been a "pilgrimage of pain." Then the Realmleader launched into his speech...
...this the Geneva World Conference tartly retorted through a spokesman: "It was to be expected that the American Jewish Committee would disavow the World Conference. The Committee is a philanthropic enterprise, not a movement. The relation of the Committee's membership to the masses of Jews is like the relation of a paternalistic employer to his workers. He will do all sorts of welfare work, but he won't recognize the union...
...posters printed and secretly distributed throughout Europe. Their purpose: to force the Belgian Parliament to lift the ban forbidding a licensed victualer to sell spirits or even keep a bottle in the house in case of illness. ''That prohibition is ruining our business." declared a spokesman for the Association. 'If we are to be ruined let all Belgium suffer too! If we can entirely eliminate the tourist trade Parliament is responsible...
When word leaked out that Manager Hart had resigned, female Cuban Telephone employes filled the corridors with their wailing. When Mr. Hart walked out he was cheered for five minutes. Said the loyal employes' spokesman, Secretary Pablo Martinez of the Telephone Workers Union: "Under no circumstances will the present workers agree to the return of the strikers." He then asked his followers to give Interventor Montoulieu a chance, assured them "If the Government's management proves unsatisfactory we can easily retaliate by paralyzing telephone service throughout Cuba." Said the Interventor: "I will employ common sense. This matter must...
Again, Famine. Not up for action at the Generalissimo's conference was what a government spokesman blandly called "the worst drought which has smitten Central China in half a century, or perhaps in living memory...