Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memorial plans to distribute the reprints widely throughout the U.S. to state cancer centers, medical schools and libraries, physicians and surgeons and, especially, to laymen who are interested in cancer research. Regarding its emphasis on this last group, a spokesman for the hospital said: "TIME'S story was well done, and it tells the story of cancer effectively and in language the layman can understand. We think that as many laymen as possible ought to read...
Hopping mad, the National Retail Dry Goods Association, instead of blaming the retailer who blabbed, last week gave Goodall a tongue-lashing: "A black eye for . . . fair-trade . . . A policy error of the first magnitude . . ." Goodall, said an association spokesman, ought to rebate the profits every retailer lost on the premature sales. Whoever was right, the shopper was getting the benefits; last week in Manhattan Gimbels offered men's tropical rayons...
...discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets of the first signee, honey-blonde Starlet Peggie Castle, 21, of Appalachia, Va. A spokesman solemnly pledged that no U-I shutters would snap "if a girl doesn't have a figure that would do us any good-or do her any good either...
Though his paper was the spokesman for U.S. business interests in Shanghai, it was also a longtime critic of the "feeble and decadent" Kuomintang regime, and for a time it had regarded the Communists with a tolerant...
...destroy the little globe called the universe." Dunninger wanted to share his spectacular discovery with the Government, but "they paid no attention to me." During the war, Dunninger tried to give the Navy a method of making battleships invisible, but again was balked by bureaucratic obtuseness. A Navy spokesman snorted: "Wildly fantastic. We refuse to be party to a cheap publicity stunt...