Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of Thersites, Albert Marre is a sufficiently detestable cynic. Last night, however, much of the pertinence of his comments was lost either through the excess of music, the crowding of his lines by other players, or the distraction of action elsewhere on the stage. If he is the spokesman for the production, and he must be, for he opens and closes the play, he should not be obscured...
...crying "Foul!" Though trade papers had banner-lined that he had made similar-but smaller-offers to keep Benny, President Niles Trammell announced primly that NBC would "continue to refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...
...French Foreign Office spokesman blasted Law 75 as a fait accompli and "a brutal rebuff." Foreign Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...
Defiance in the Desert. Would the Jews accept the order? There was no sign of it in Tel Aviv. Cried one government spokesman: "Absolutely astounding ... a shameful proposal." The U.N., he said, had come "dangerously close to the prerogatives . . . held by God of quickening the dead." Even Israel's gentle, scholarly President Chaim Weizmann was moved to truculence. "No force on earth," he declared, "can remove the Jews from the Negeb, short of carrying them bodily-and they are a heavy burden...
...spotters, according to the spokesman, were to give the signal when players and officials moved out of the mid-field area. The first opportunity of this kind did not come until Harvard had been downed deep in its own territory after the kick...