Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was indignantly denied by a Cunard official to reporters of London's Daily Express. "It is incorrect." snapped Cunard's spokesman, "to say that the com-pany do not believe that a ship of the size of the 534 could pay her way. The ships paying the best in the Atlantic service are the large ones. . . . The suspension of work was because of the inability to obtain loans in the City at reasonable rates of interest...
...giving the Union Central Executive Committee a good dose of 1932, Stalin's spokesman worked the assembly up to an appropriate pitch of optimism. But he also admitted 1931 gaps in the Five-Year Plan, gaps which hundreds of delegates knew to exist in the places from which they came. Neither Russia's transport system, nor her production of steel, iron or coal, nor the general productivity of labor in Soviet factories, admitted Premier Molotov, have fulfilled the 1931 schedules of the Five-Year Plan...
...years ago Alfred Lief published a collection of Mr. Justice Holmes' dissenting opinions. Now in a companion volume to this earlier one, the same editor has collected opinions which portray the jurist not as the "Great Dissenter" but as the spokesman for the majority of the Court...
Excited Japanese devoured the captions, cursed Statesman Stimson by the million, spat by the thousand upon his inoffensive likeness. Even at the Japanese Foreign Office, where velvet politeness is an iron rule, Press Spokesman Shiratori Toshio snapped: "If a man in Mr. Stimson's position loses his head at such a critical moment in the affairs of Japan, the consequences would be very grave indeed. . . . Mr. Stimson says the Japanese Army in Manchuria 'ran amuck.' This is considered a very bold statement indeed...
...convenient hills, each some 150 ft. high and admirably placed by Nature behind the fighting lines, stood the respective Chinese and Japanese General Staffs. Somebody had to start the battle. Afterwards, the Japanese Press spokesman accused Chinese soldiers of having begun the fray with "unbearable taunts...