Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juan Corominas, spokesman for the Spanish Left, threw the meeting into an uproar by charging that "Germany and Italy, by their intervention in Spain, are trying to grab advantageous positions for themselves." This drew howls from the Italians. The presiding officer banged with his gavel, reprimanded Corominas with the admonition that the Union takes no stand on political conflicts. The Spanish delegate hotly replied that he was not taking sides, he was simply stating facts...
...Dearborn, Mich., news of the oncoming drive was conveyed to Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's private police chief and spokesman, whose men were accused in a National Labor Relations Board hearing of beating U. A. W. organizers at the Ford plant last May. Said he: "We never made an agreement with the U. A. W. and we never will...
...both swift and effective," said Senator Guffey. As political ingrates sure to be defeated when they come up for reelection he named three Democrats, Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler. From Senator Guffey, a spokesman for the New Deal, this statement was not remarkable, but from Senator Guffey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee whose job is to get Democratic Senators re-elected next year, it was dynamite. Next day, when the Senate came to order for the last time this year Senator Wheeler...
...Times represents a section of opinion almost as favorable to any understanding with Germany as any in Great Britain. That opinion is now alienated. ... To expel a Times correspondent amounts almost to a diplomatic incident," thundered the News Chronicle. A spokesman of the Times said with icy dignity: "We are not going to send a man to Berlin at dictation of the Nazis. Unless the Germans suffer an attack of sense within the next few days and keep Ebbutt, we shall leave the Berlin post vacant...
Replied a Nanking Foreign Office spokesman: "If Kawagoe desires to open negotiations, there will be negotiations...