Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Cardinal Innitzer first began to charge that Soviet citizens were starving, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Office remarked. "In Russia, I am happy to say, we have no famine and no cardinals" (TIME, Aug. 28). Soon afterward, on a goodwill visit to Russia, French ex Premier Edouard Herriot toured the regions of alleged starvation, pronounced Soviet famine a myth (TIME, Sept. 11). Moscow correspondents, denied free access to the areas in question at the time, were inclined to conclude from later visits that some starvation there had been. Driving ahead in Vienna, Cardinal Innitzer, just before Christmas, secured...
...asked to coach the Yale football team in 1934. Next day the Kipke story really began to break. All Manhattan papers carried advance notices about a luncheon at the Yale Club to be attended by both Mal colm Farmer and President James Rowland Angell at which, "an official Yale spokesman" predicted, the new coach would be named. The failure of the prophecy to come true caused more banner headlines: YALE STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT FOOTBALL COACH. This news was important enough to last for two days. Then sportswriters tossed into the pot the names of seven more coaches in addition...
...That junket of McCooey's down to the White House was just to make it look as though he still has his finger in the pie," said a Quayle spokesman. "He is positively...
...present principles are strengthened. It also satisfied II Duce whose idea of strengthening the League is to cut out most of its democratic-parliamentary apparatus and vest all League authority in a clique of Great Powers. "Signor Mussolini shares completely the view of Sir John Simon," beamed a spokesman for the Dictator...
Died. Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior, 62, German banker (M. M. Warburg & Co.) and reparations spokesman, onetime board vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements; of heart disease and arteriosclerosis; in Hamburg...