Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 30 rooms had been gutted by flames the roof crashed in, effectively ruining two-thirds of Hillsborough Castle. "The cause of the fire is quite unknown," announced a spokesman for the Belfast Government, spiking rumors that Free Staters might have crossed to Northern Ireland to burn down the Castle. "Apparently the cause of the conflagration was accidental...
...threes the children have escaped to Czechoslovakia where Soviet agents put them on the special train last week. As the train chuffed across Poland the refugees were compelled by Polish soldiers to furl their red flags, but once in Russia they wiggled them from every window. Said a Soviet spokesman, "These children will be sent first to vacation camps and then to schools as proteges of the Soviet Union...
Three days later Education Minister Bernhard Rust, who had been rumored about to dissolve all the Fatherland's student fraternities, abruptly dismissed Dr. Staebel, thus cracking down on their bitterest foe. But a spokesman for Minister Rust announced that all student activities would be brought more closely under the Ministry of Education's control. In a circular sent out by the Ministry of Education schools and universities were warned last week that every German instructor must be "an exponent of National Socialist [Nazi] ideology...
Last January, said Mr. Lee, he went to Germany "just to size up" Herr Hitler and his associates. He outlined a statement on armaments which was subsequently released in the U. S., suggested that a German spokesman be sent to the U. S. to explain the new Germany. "I have told them repeatedly," testified Mr. Lee, "that . . . the dissemination of, the organization of, German propaganda in the U. S. was just a mistake and futile. That it was bad business. That complete reliance should be placed on getting news to the American people through normal channels of publicity. ... I told...
...committee wanted to know if Germany was the first foreign country for which Mr. Lee has acted as press spokesman...