Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome a spokesman for the Vatican said: "His Majesty signed an undertaking [at the time of his marriage] to baptize his children in Catholicism. If he does not fulfill the pledge, he must answer to his own conscience...
...hand to hand with many a smirk picture postcards which suddenly appeared throughout the Kingdom. They showed a man with the head of King Carol holding on his lap a woman with the head of His Majesty's mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu. Purple in the face, a Court spokesman spluttered that "dastard enemies of His Majesty the King have concocted these slanderous photographs from models on whom heads have apparently been superimposed...
...into rich fields beyond the automobile business. He was largely responsible for GM's frigidaire. If he gets his way. the next big GM sideline will be airconditioning. His fluency of speech and his position as No. 1 engineer of the biggest company have often made him the spokesman for his profession. ''Engineering," he says, "is a combination of materials and brains-the more brains the less material...
...means the only person to discover that money can be made from the U. S. habit of paying fantastic prices in boom times, panic selling in lean years. Dealers in English furniture and antique silver have been shipping their best pieces back to London for over a year. A spokesman for Yamanaka & Co. said last week that three years ago there was scarcely an important Japanese print left in Japan. Wall Street collapsed, and Tokyo dealers began quietly to buy. Today, even with the collapse of the yen, rare Utamaros and Yeishis bring far more in Tokyo than...
...other industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...