Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...
...everyone's sympathy. They, like everyone else, knew that they were there largely to put their own thoughts on record, and then to give approval to what had already been agreed to by the U.S., Great Britain and Russia. At the public opening session China's spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo, got applause even from the supposedly callous correspondents...
...Accra, one Adumua, Esq., a candidate for the local town council, bought space in the African Spokesman, modestly catalogued (in the third person) his qualifications for office...
Said Communist Spokesman Lin Tso-han: "We would like to have a national congress called immediately." Cried Chungking's Dr. Wang Shih-chieh: "While Manchuria and other provinces are cut off from Free China, nationwide elections are impossible. The Government has promised all parties, including the Communists, equal status within one year after the war." There was charge and countercharge about the Chinese Red Army. Lin charged that Chungking wanted to cut its present strength of 470,000 men to 150,000. The Communists, retorted Dr. Wang, kept raising the ante: "At the beginning . . .Lin demanded twelve divisions...
...Spokesman Johnston prodded business to give practical guidance to developing the social security program, and made a special plea for a 50-50 employer-employe sharing of the burden. He cited the fact that the employer currently pays a 4% tax on his payroll towards social security costs, in contrast to a 1% employe contribution. Including workmen's compensation, the employer now pays 84% of the social security bill, the employe...