Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obituary platitudes commonly uttered when a statesman dies, in his case take on some measure of flesh and blood. Although the vision he had of a general peace and a reorganized Europe was by no means unique, circumstances and his oratorical gift gave him a unique position as the spokesman of that ideal. He appeared to the world as the counterpoise, in French politics, to the ingrained chauvinism which has made France the popular ogre of the pacifists. His truest measure is found not in the compromises to which internal policies reduced him, but in his work at Locarno...
...world's most famed makers of war paraphernalia, were ordered by the Air Ministry last week to stop work on the largest fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa, for they...
...Bwana," cried the spokesman, "she only removed half of it and then she ran away...
...Congress: Ultra-conservative in his economic views, he is unflinchingly regular in his Republican votes. Seniority of service has advanced him to the chairmanship of the Naval Affairs Committee. Sincerely believing in the largest fighting fleet possible, he is the legislative spokesman of the Navy's General Board. When President Hoover called for an investigation of Big-Navy lobbying by William B. Shearer, he went all in a fidget to his old friend and Harvard classmate, the late Undersecretary of State, Joseph Potter Cotton, who advised him: "Freddie, you've been here 13 years and haven...
...largely responsible for the development of professional boxing in Massachusetts, Casey faces a tremendous task. During Buckley's 11 years as a commissioner, he has been the dominating figure in the business of the commission, and now the greater part of the retiring commissioner's duties as "spokesman" of the commission fall upon the new member...