Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform makers had overlooked the determination of the Northerners, whose volatile Americans for Democratic Action had drafted a minority report. A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...both sides, hotheads were sore at the U.N. order. The Jews were sure they could win in a fight. Arab diehards at first threatened countersanctions against Britain and the U.S. Azzam Pasha, spokesman for the Arab League, snarled: "If you prevent me from getting what I want, naturally I will prevent you from getting what you want." He meant oil. The Arabs could seriously interfere with the flow of 40% of the world's oil lying in areas they inhabit...
...hold a veto over German decisions, and the German leaders, understandably, were ducking responsibility without full authority. The Germans suggested several verbal changes: for "government" they wanted to substitute "economic and administrative area"; for the "constitution" to be drafted in September they suggested "organizational statute." But, said Social Democratic Spokesman Erich Ollenhauer: "We are going ahead shoulder to shoulder with the task of strengthening not only Germany but all democratic Europe...
John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...
Next day in Spokane he swung his roundhouse punches harder. A reporter from Spokane's stodgy, arch-Republican Spokesman-Review asked: "How do you like being in a Republican stronghold?" Said Harry Truman: "The Spokane Spokesman-Review and the Chicago Tribune are the worst in the United States." A few minutes later he denounced Congress as the "worst since the first...