Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnappers, they might be holding out for more money; 3) his child was dead. After it got out that he had sought Federal aid in tracing the ransom money, Col. Lindbergh reiterated his promise not to "try to injure" the criminals if only they would return the child. A spokesman for him admitted that "he feared that his action in calling upon Federal officials . . . might be interpreted by the kidnappers as an effort to double-cross them...
That the State Crown, made in 1838 for Queen Victoria, was flimsily built and has been slowly sinking down upon itself, was revealed last week by a spokesman for George V. Able goldsmiths have just restored the Crown, declared the royal announcement. Adding new gold "they have reblocked it an inch higher, a necessary repair, for it had sunk so much and become so insecure that His Majesty could not have worn it much longer." George V observed with satisfaction that each of the 3,000-odd stones in his reblocked headgear, diligently polished, now twinkle and gleam anew. (Startled...
...Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James's Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays various instruments and improvises even better than the Prince of Wales." Three, even two years ago Palace spokesmen were saying that King George was grooming Prince George to become the Governor General of a Dominion; they hinted New Zealand...
...Brooding and white-lipped Major Kuga walked last week to the exact spot on Shanghai's battlefield where the hand grenade had knocked him unconscious. There, putting his service pistol to his head, he fired one well-aimed shot. "The suicide of Major Kuga." said the Japanese military spokesman at Shanghai, "has aroused the greatest sympathy and admiration in Japanese military and civilian circles here." In Shanghai the Oriental haggling match over when & how Japan's forces will withdraw eased into its leisurely month last week at the British Consulate...
...most cases the chairman is a former president retired to sinecure. The president gives orders as a team captain would, is controlled by the directors chiefly through their power to remove him. The chairman is often spokesman for his board. Typical of a chairman who uses his position as a rostrum is voluble Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Examples of well-known chairmen who have retired into the position are Charles Sumner Woolworth, 75, and Henry Holiday Timken. 64. Some chairmanships are frankly nominal. Such is James Anson Campbell's position as "chairman emeritus" of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...