Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately after the election that Nixon aides passed word that the President-elect wanted a new man. The ostensible reason: the party needed an articulate, attractive spokesman to project vitality. Blind in one eye, squat of build, chubby of face and soporific as a speaker, Bliss, at 61, could hardly meet that requirement. Nonetheless, the rationale for wanting him out was somewhat specious. National chairmen rarely serve as showboats, and when a party controls the White House, its public image lives there. After Republican Governors and national committeemen protested, Nixon eased off. In January, he invited Bliss...
Which is, of course, an incredible oversimplification; these people really do believe in freedom, but they're scared. "Free speech doesn't include the spewing out over the airwaves of unmitigated hate material," one spokesman for the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday. The poem was read by a black man, and at a time when suppressed feelings of bitterness between blacks and Jews were suddenly becoming vividly expressed. The incident followed a period of eight months of almost constant conflict between the United Federation of Teachers and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville community. Soon afterwards the Metropolitan Museum's catalogue...
...recognize the enormous disaffection with the war inside the armed forces," John Barman '69, a spokesman for the group, said yesterday. "GI-CAP is trying to encourage GI's to exercise their constitutional right of free speech," he added...
Sales Down. The Tobacco Institute, spokesman for the industry, called the FCC's proposed ban "arbitrary in the extreme." A number of Congressmen from North Carolina, Kentucky and other primary tobacco-growing states also raised objections. They had some important economic arguments. Altogether 18 states raise tobacco in significant amounts; millions of Americans are somehow involved in tobacco growing, processing or marketing; cigarettes last year contributed $8.4 billion to the gross national product and $4.1 billion to federal and local taxes. Beyond that are the intricate legal and moral questions of whether the Government has the right to limit...
...Tuesday's Faculty debate on the future of ROTC I was struck by the contrast between the good sense and relevance of the one student spokesman and the rather lengthy digressions of some of my Faculty colleagues. If this is a sample of what we may expect from student participation in our deliberations, I am all for it. Hollis B. Cheney Professor of Economics