Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anti-Administrationist Harry Byrd called attention to Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt in Maryland, which cost $16,000 per family unit, and Hightstown Project in New Jersey ($20,000 per unit). Then he demanded a construction limit of $4,000 per family unit and $1,000 per room. "A spokesman for the Administration," he cried, "said . . . that this was an experiment, and that all experiments were costly. . . . Why, may I ask, is the building of a house an experiment? People have built houses from the beginning of time...
...also stated that the Archbishop is "generally humorless." He would indeed be humourless if he had used the words attributed to him about being chief spokesman of God to his fellow countrymen. As a matter of fact, he has the keenest possible sense of humour (like most of his fellow Scotsmen) and is one of the most highly sought-after after dinner speakers in the whole of London...
...pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries who, of course, banqueted him in return-President Vincent at his estate, "Kenscoff." As the Gordons sailed last week on S, S. Pastores, the Haitian press spokesman pontificated in French: "All functions on the occasion of Minister Gordon's departure were perfectly successful. He left the impression in Haiti that he is a diplomat both correct and loyal...
...from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write and publish the best story about Michigan...
...floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center is the breezy Rockefeller Center Luncheon Club. There one sweltering day last week, after a few rounds of cool Budweiser, some 35 financial newshawks sat down at a long table as the guests of Robert Ralph Young, amiable spokesman-member of the trio which bought control of the Van Sweringen railroad empire from George A. Ball, the Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar tycoon (TIME, May 3). It was quiet Mr. Young who described himself and his two partners-Allan P. Kirby and Frank F. Kolbe-as "just babes...