Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, however, written statements had ground out of the White House mill on meat controls, surplus property, traffic safety, diplomatic missions, water development. White House reporters, inundated with handouts, thought they saw the paper ghost of another era-the White House spokesman...
...British man-in-the-street was too tired to reply, but into the breach sprang his favorite spokesman, Columnist Nat Gubbins of London's Sunday Express...
...watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
...Ottawa, an External Affairs Department spokesman stood it as long as he could. Then, in language as diplomatic as his striped pants, he flatly said that such press reports were "misleading." In plain Canadian talk: flapdoodle...
With but one dissenting voice a council of House Masters yesterday refused the extension of visiting hours suggested by the Student Council two weeks ago. In a letter to Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, president of the Council, Elliott Perkins '23, master of Lowell and spokesman for the House Masters claimed that "further emphasis on the coed atmosphere is undesirable...