Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth & Philip would have a wedding with all the trimmings, after all. The public had shouted down all suggestions of an "austerity" affair. The ceremony would be held in Westminster Abbey, a Government spokesman said, probably in October. But it was "unlikely that . . . peers will be required to wear all their robes. . . . The moths have been in them...
Some films that made the grade: House of Dracula, Dick Tracy v. Cueball, Gilda, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Outlaw. Explained a Library spokesman: the selections were not necessarily the year's "best," but they "most faithfully record in one way or another, the contemporary lives and preferences of the American people...
...State Department eyed a somewhat brighter spot in the Far East-the trim, adaptable, hardworking nation of Japan. Japan was under the direct and all-but-absolute control of the U.S. Strategically, it flanked the Asiatic mainland as England flanked Europe. What was more, Japan had a powerful spokesman, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...that was not all. Crowed the G.O.P.'s spokesman: "We're going to hand him some tough legislation on Communists in government and dare him to veto. We're going to give him some trouble on his Pendergast associations and the Kansas City frauds. Now it's our turn...
...danger was that price rises would not stop there. A spokesman for Ben Fairless' U.S. Steel, the bellwether of all U.S. industry, argued that the higher costs could be absorbed between mine and consumer, that assured production was more important now than a slight price rise, that anything was better than another coal strike. The argument had a slightly brassy ring...