Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From now on, explained a Palace spokesman, the Princesses will "live the lives of two young girls." Elizabeth, who now has her own apartment at the Palace, likes helping Papa and Mama entertain. At Palace parties, the King loves to lead a conga line. Every fifth dance he dutifully foxtrots or waltzes with the Queen...
British scientists had brought this storm upon themselves by insisting that something be done and done soon about internationalizing The Bomb. A prominent spokesman for them had been Physicist Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant. Others, following Oliphant's lead, had secretly circulated a round robin declaring that they would rebel against enforced secrecy if the Government ignored them, Official Secrets...
...Communist forces along the Great Wall were part of the famed Eighth Route Army. After taking over the ancient crossroads city of Kalgan, some 215 miles inland from Chinwangtao, and making it the capital of a new border government, the Eighth turned its energies to Manchuria. A Communist spokesman blandly explained that the Russians, observing the letter of their treaty obligations in Manchuria, had forbidden the Eighth to enter -as an army. But the Russians had welcomed Communist "civilians." Said the spokesman: "There is a possibility that these civilians armed the people." In any event, strong Communist forces were grouped...
...level committee from the State, War, Navy and Commerce Departments and the CAB,* is the first study of its kind. Its basic assumption: aircraft production over the next few years will be twice that of 1940 but less than 5% of the planes built in 1944. Spokesman Baker said that the industry would make between 325 and 475 transport planes a year, and 20,000 to 45,000 small planes for private flyers. From these two sources, the industry would get a maximum gross of $295,000,000 annually. But, butted Dr. Baker: this was nowhere near enough. To keep...
Frank Sinatra is the chief spokesman and one of the chief promoters of this serious scolding to the race-conscious. He breaks up a gang of junior neighborhood toughs who are about to beat up a kid vaguely described as belonging to the wrong church. Sinatra then delivers a lecture: without traditional U.S. tolerance, Presbyterian Colin Kelly and his Jewish bombardier, Meyer Levin, would never have become great U.S. heroes...