Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Sir Frederick had presented himself at the State Department and at the Treasury, where he met his opposite number, young Undersecretary Dean Acheson. Each side made friendly little announcements. From a Treasury spokesman: "There is no use disguising the fact that the British cannot pay the entire sum due. To proceed on any other basis would be foolish." From Sir Ronald Lindsay: "Cancellation might come into the discussion, but it will go out again just as quickly, if I understand the feeling...
...coincides with the presence in the Cabinet of its first woman, and she in the Labor Department. In Madam Secretary Perkins is concentrated all the philosophy of the New Deal and most of its instinctive sympathy for the working man. Early & late she has served as his able, articulate spokesman around the Cabinet table, before Congressional committees, at NRA hearings, on the stump. For the first time in years the working man may feel that there is a trained mind functioning for him in Washington. Gone are the easy platitudes of the politician; Miss Perkins speaks the idiom...
...child labor in the cotton code. At first the manufacturers quibbled on the ground that their minimum wage proposal would make child employment uneconomic. But that night they got together in an emergency meeting, voted to put into their code such a clause. Next day at the hearing their spokesman announced: "This brings a good deal of happiness. . . . Our industry believes that it would be helpful to the broad movement to put an express provision in the cotton textile code that the employment of minors under 16 years of age be not permitted during the emergency." The sudden...
...irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked to have the memory of that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent wit and humor which poured in a continual and effortless stream from his typewriter into the pages of the Spokane Spokesman-Review and into his books. These books-collections of fine humorous verse, What the Queen Said, The Raspberry Tree and others-must and will pass into future collections of Americana as characteristic of this age. We who knew King, however slightly, feel it would be ignoble in his death to permit...
During the War Stod King served in the Washington National Guard. When he was discharged he went back to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, the newspaper on which he worked before he went East to Yale. The Spokesman mourned deeply last week the passing of its best colyumist, a man who, News Editor Malcolm Glendenning said, had never once turned in a poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant...