Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce in Berlin, a genial gathering of some 1,500 delegates from 41 nations. The British soap trust was represented by Chairman F. d'Arcy Cooper of Lever Brothers Ltd. who talked much privately about softsoaping the Germans with gold. But the British delegation's chief public spokesman for this idea was Brewer Arthur Guinness...
Nearest thing to a spokesman in Berlin for the gold billions in the new U. S. strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture...
...spokesman as well as originator of the convention, the Banner's Stahlman explained that "collective bargaining is not an issue"; nor would the meeting "consider any interference with nor violation of the letter or the spirit of the Wagner Act." At week's end, however, as acceptances indicated at least 1,000 publishers or their home-office representatives would attend, the Guild in its Reporter solemnly recognized the publishers' threat: "It voices a challenge to the Guild on one of the most fundamental of the new requirements for contracts laid down at St. Louis, the Guild shop...
...soon as the resolution was published, into Atlantic City popped the A. M. A.'s incredibly verbose Senate spokesman, whiskery little old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. This was his big moment to assure the doctors that he would take care of them in the parlous legislative future. Orated Senator 'Lewis...
...Washington, President Roosevelt gently intimated that Senator Lewis was not the President's spokesman in matters medical, that the White House at this time contemplates no Federalization of medicine. But Senator Hugo La Fayette Black of Alabama re-introduced a resolution for the Senate's Labor Committee, of which he is chairman, to investigate or recommend legislation "to provide a national public health policy." When such a resolution first was presented to the Senate, A. M. A. Lobbyist Woodward got it squelched. Now, said Senator Black, "the Association seems ready to co-operate...