Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dimitrov's own National Assembly at Sofia, Deputy Kosta Lulchev, spokesman of the isolated little nine-man parliamentary opposition, had dared to criticize the budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
...others: John McCone, president of the West Coast's old and famous Joshua Hendy Iron Works; George P. Baker, professor of transportation at Harvard Business School, director in 1945 of the State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch...
...classes moyennes were organized. Small and medium businessmen, doctors, lawyers, architects, chemists, artists, writers had been loosely united ten months ago by the National Committee for Liaison and Action of the Middle Classes, which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...
Tribune needed Foot. The weekly, spokesman for a highly placed Socialist group, boasted the best ministerial connections. But Fleet Street had long gossiped that Tribune's position was the weakest of the "big five" weekend papers.* Sir Stafford Cripps, co-founder of Tribune in 1937, had long since stopped backing it. It had dipped into the red, and barely held its 18,000 circulation. The next six months might settle Tribune's fate...
...addition to this figure, the jayvee spokesman claimed the support of two-thirds of the varsity grid squad, whose opinion is presumably worth a good deal. Although Powell did not reveal their names, he added that they had authorized him to inform Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 that they were in favor of placing Boston in command of the 1948 team...