Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head. Two days after Lord Irwin's memorable sarcasm the Government announced that Gandhi, who was not "imprisoned" but "detained during the pleasure of the Government" in Yerovda Jail, would be ousted and detained under guard in a house, if he should begin to fast. Thus, said a British spokesman "the question of forcible feeding would not arise...
...Spokesman for the Technocrats and director of their "Energy Survey of North America," is Howard Scott, consulting engineer.* His analyses of power have set many a tycoon pondering into the night. Says he: "The price system and its concomitant political administration are hangovers from past sequences of history in which production depended on the conversion of energy through manpower alone. Before the last century the only means by which energy could be converted into products or services was the human engine, whose rate is equivalent to about one-tenth horsepower...
...stop the Legion's stampede for the Bonus. He has a last line of defense?the veto. Secretary of War Hurley had announced he would go to the Portland convention, make a speech if they would let him. Last week the White House disavowed him as its spokesman...
...indignation soon found a spokesman in the New York Sun. Cried the Sun: ''Well, those English can pull our legs at peace conferences, do us in the eye in disarmament treaties and help Europe cheat us out of War Debt billions; they can call us dollar-chasers, jazz maniacs and Prohibition hypocrites, but they can't call our robin not a robin and our grey squirrel...
This struck the supersensitive skins of Japanese statesmen as a direct charge of aggression in Manchuria. Possibly organized by the Foreign Office, all Japanese newspapers commenced a great Yakamashii or "Big Noise." Above the Yakamashii a Foreign Office spokesman announced that Japan was just about to recognize formally the existence of her puppet state "Manchoukuo." As a practical step toward doing so General Nobuyoshi Muto replaced General Honjo as commander in Manchuria with the impressive titles of "Supreme Military and Commander," "Ambassador on Special Mission...