Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes later with breakfast he received a furious frontal kick from hungry Captain Rodriguez, crumpled up and died. Last week kicking Captain Rodriguez was tried by a Mexican court-martial, sentenced to be shot. "This is the first death sentence in the Mexican Army since 1927," announced a careful spokesman for the Court. "In that year General Rueda Quijana was shot for high treason...
...would be laid off each week for a seven-day period beginning this week until all had reduced their hours from 40 to 35 by Jan. 1. "The company is taking this mandatory step in compliance with the new prohibition against work in this country," smirked a Ford spokesman. NRA officials in Washington did not hide their concern over this action. They said that while Mr. Ford may have had a legal right to reduce his payroll, it was a violation of the NRA spirit. General Johnson, surprised by Mr. Ford's sudden submission, said he would be glad...
...front of the White House one afternoon last week, five worried Governors unloaded themselves from automobiles and posed for newscameras with Secretary Wallace of Agriculture and Director George Peek of AAA. Then Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, the group's spokesman, with a sporty blue shirt, blue tie, grey suit and slicked-back hair, led them in to see the President. His jaunty step belied the deep concern he felt. South Dakota's Tom Berry, a broad-brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait...
...days ago General Araki, the fulminating spokesman of Tokio, invited all interested powers to gather and discuss the Asiatic problem with Japan, a proposal which was welcomed by the "interested" countries as an opportunity to return the snubs which the Rising Sun Empire has handed out these last few years. A Japanese offer of international arbitration over Manchukuo is a gesture lost upon these major nations whose own history contains so many examples of the well-known imperialistic principle, "Shoot first and be asked questions afterwards...
Died. Morris Hillquit, 64, national chairman of the Socialist Party, longtime Socialist spokesman and writer (History of Socialism in the United States, from...