Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major General Charles Henry Martin, 82, World War I Commander of the famed Black Hawk Division, who served two terms in Congress, became Oregon's Governor (1935-39), made himself a crusty spokesman for Oregon's anti-New Deal Democrats; in Portland...
...proposals for restoration of consumer rationing came from Mrs. Maurice Sagoff, chairman of the Massachusetts Consumers' Advisory Committee to the OPA, and from George C. Kern, a Portland, Maine, meat packer, and spokesman for the National Association of Indepent Meat Packers...
Henry Wallace came from Iowa, where he was the editor of Wallace's Farmer, the journal founded by his Republican grandfather. He was friend and spokesman of the men of the soil, the exponent of scientific farming. He was a dreamer, and a scientist who developed a hybrid corn. Franklin Roosevelt made him his Secretary of Agriculture and he went to Washington -a shy, humble man with a cowlick, who once put himself on an exclusive diet of soybeans just to prove a point. He proved that soybeans are not enough...
Tito decided to provide martyrdom. For the Archbishop had become the only spokesman for Yugoslavs, rendered voiceless and helpless by the OZNA (Tito's secret police). People knelt when Stepinac passed through the streets...
Lord Lindsay was elevated to the peerage this year as a spokesman for the Labor Party in the House of Lords...