Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Incalculable city," wrote Fitzgerald. "What ensued was only one of a thousand success stories of those gaudy days. . . . I, who knew less of [New York] society than any hall-room boy in a Ritz stagline, was pushed into the position not only of spokesman for the time but of the typical product." Actresses whom he had worshipped from afar now eagerly lunched at his apartment. When he stepped into a public fountain in the small hours, the gossip columns turned the splash into a tidal wave. The morning after a mild argument with a cop, he read: "Fitzgerald Knocks Officer...
Said a SHAEF spokesman last week, summing up the Hitler situation: "We have every reason to believe he is dead, but no evidence that he is not still alive...
...Chinese had never complained publicly about the smallness of the assistance they had received but after that statement by Mr. Churchill, a Chinese official spokesman in Chungking called in the newspaper reporters the next day, not to complain even then, but merely to set the record straight. He told them just how much aid the Chinese had received from America. It was the amount required to keep one American division in the field for one week...
...paying strict attention) approved the report without a dissenting vote. Next day, finding itself clutched to the editorial bosom of the left-wing press, the Synod rubbed its eyes and sat up. Much of Canada's press spluttered with indignant denunciations. Last week a red-faced Synod spokesman explained emphatically that Canadian Presbyterians are not red-minded. The controversial passage had not appeared in the official copy, said he, but had been interpolated during the reading by an overenthusiastic chairman...
...TIME, May 7) had in fact been a triumph for Molotov, Stettinius' forthright support of Argentina, said they, unnecessarily pointed up the disproportionate voting strength of the U.S.'s noisy Latin American bloc, gave Molotov a brilliantly used opportunity to pose as the conference's moral spokesman in opposing the Argentine jingoes, and generally cost the U.S. more than it gained...