Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because they liked him personally, Republican Senators in 1929 chose him as their floor leader when Charles Curtis vacated that difficult job for the easier vice presidency. But he led only a nominal party majority which insurgent bolters repeatedly turned into a voting minority. Officially the President's spokesman in the Senate, he has eaten many a breakfast at the White House but rarely rises to defend Herbert Hoover from partisan attack. Privately criticized for failing to back up his chief, he was once reported to have snorted: ''How can you stand behind a man with...
Knowing that the "means test" is the chief grievance of Britain's unemployed, Scot MacDonald summoned his Cabinet in hasty session. Later a spokesman said the National Government were "planning to remove harsh features of the means test," planning for example to let an unemployed man exclude his property or capital (if any) from his statement of "means" which would be defined hereafter as covering only current income...
...Said a spokesman at the General Postoffice: "Such advertising by telegraph involved no extravagance as we are able to send telegrams for nothing...
Possibly spurious, the leaflets were offered by a Japanese spokesman as ''moral evidence" against Chinese. If taken at face value, the leaflets offered a further bounty of $4.500 gold for the head of any one of Henry Pu Yi's ministers and a general bounty of $225 gold per set of ten Japanese heads. The head of Puppet Henry Pu Yi himself was apparently considered worthless, no bounty for it being offered...
...Secretary Mills insisted its scope was purely domestic, denied that its real aim was to meet foreign demands for gold. ?Senator Carter Glass last week contradicted the President, declared that though he had been in the midst of last winter's financial fight, he had heard no Administration spokesman express alarm about the gold standard...