Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the dozen men whom the Trib praised for "putting America first" was F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, who is generally considered a left-wing spokesman...
...politician, and as the Republican spokesman on foreign policy, he warded off sniping attacks from members of his own party and preserved the bipartisan foreign policy. Without him, indeed, there probably would not have been a bipartisan policy. And without such a policy, George Marshall could never have led his nation into its new world role...
...news was relayed to the government of Premier Themistocles Sophoulis by an army radioman in Macedonia and by a destroyer which had picked it up at sea. A spokesman for General Markos Vafiades, guerrilla chieftain, had proclaimed formation of a new northern state -the "First Provisional Democratic Government of Free Greece." Chief of state: Markos Vafiades...
...been nearly ten years since Thomas Wolfe died, and in that decade his reputation with the critics has steadily declined, while his popularity with the public has increased. His admirers see Wolfe as a rock-solid, almost primitive spokesman of the American people, whose novels are a grandiose articulation of their own vague, subterranean but insistent attitudes towards the puzzles of human life, and whose writing absorbed the textures, aromas, frustrations, daydreams and tragedies of America with an amplitude unequaled by any writer since Whitman...
Some long-range decisions had to be made, too. To hold on to North China, would the government soon have to abandon Manchuria entirely? In Nanking last week a government spokesman described the dilemma. Said he: "Two factors are involved-the government military position below the Great Wall and U.S. aid. If both are strong or positive, the government will fight not only to hold on but to reclaim all Manchuria. If either is weak or negative, the government will still fight to the uttermost. But if both are weak and negative, then full retreat from Manchuria may well...