Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Al Smith carried his complaints against R. F. C. policy to Washington and straight into the R. F. C. board room itself. There he appeared as spokesman for the New York State Emergency Public Works Commission which was trying to borrow $93.000.000 from the R. F. C. for job-making construction...
...decline to answer!" snapped the British Government's spokesman, but tough Reza Shah Pahlevi's morale was not shaken. He ignored Britain's ultimatum, let Dec. 15 pass, sent his Minister of Justice speeding to Geneva where, most fortunately, the League Council told off famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perennial Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," to try to calm the Persians and the British...
...will not pay higher taxes!" boomed a fervent spokesman for the prosperous, bourgeois mobsters. "Let the State abandon its multiple functions!* Taxes must be lowered, not raised. If need be let the State raise money by a lottery...
Enterprising Manhattan reporters managed to find local "Nazi" headquarters in the beery Yorkville neighborhood. Patient knocking at last aroused six preoccupied Teutons, some curiously clad in pajamas, all with well-thumbed newspapers in hand. "Maybe we send a cable," said the spokesman. "Maybe we celebrate tonight." Pointing to the new Chancellor's photograph he added pridefully: "Just like Mussolini...
...United States is evidently aiding Bolivia!" stormed excited Paraguayans. Soon, however, in La Paz an unofficial Bolivian spokesman made the real facts known...