Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neal, tough and profane as well as courtly, has been the most powerful spokesman U.S. farmers have ever had. All during the Roosevelt years, he-more than any other man-shaped U.S. farm policy. In his heyday as president of the rich American Farm Bureau Federation (membership: 1,275,000), he had no peer as a Washington lobbyist. He knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry...
...Priest . . ." Twelve thousand tough, enthusiastic young Milanese Catholics jammed into the Great Hall to honor St. Ambrose and hear militant words. Cried Monsignor Adelmo Bicchierai, spokesman of Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan: "The time has come to live again the days when the Lombards rose around Alberto di Giussano.* . . . We must be ready for victorious martyrdom...
...Labor Party had already censured the British Communists' most eloquent spokesman, who is not a Communist-burly, buck-toothed Konni ("Zilly") Zilliacus, intellectual Laborite M.P. who wants Britain to help Communist Russia set up control of Europe against U.S. "imperialists." Zilly and twelve other Labor M.P.s who follow the Russian line had recently sent a friendly message to the Russian-sponsored "People's Congress" in Berlin. The Parliamentary Labor Party passed a resolution that "This meeting . .. dissociates itself from the message . . . [which] in no way reflects [our] attitude or views...
...which will reawaken in the U.S. Senate something of the same uneasiness aroused by the Massie affair. Hawaii is knocking at the nation's door. After almost half a century of territorial status, she wants to be admitted as the 49th state. Her aggressive spokesman is Joseph Farrington, an influential publisher, son of an immigrant from the mainland, and Hawaii's Delegate to the U.S. Congress...
...spokesman at Communist State headquarters in Boston professed ignorance of the flier, asserting that he was not in charge of the Party's college movement. The office's Boylston Street address was the same one listed for the "Student Branch" in the hand-bill...