Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor, but the possibility of one in Capital. For two months before last week's blowup, negotiations had been going on to replace the agreement made between maritime labor and the shipowners after the gory 1934 general strike. That agreement expired Sept. 30, was continued by truces. Spokesman for Labor was Longshoreman Bridges. Spokesman for the shipowners was Chairman Tom G. Plant of the Waterfront Employers' Association. Bridges demanded higher pay, a six-hour day, recognition of the unity of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Chairman Plant demanded that control of hiring halls-the big issue...
Acting as official spokesman for the student body, last Wednesday evening the Student Council passed a resolution in favor of repeal, and asked for a standardization and revision of the old law. This step, timed to greet Mr. Conant upon his return, completes the picture of undergraduate opposition. The Student Council did not flare up in anger. Its decision was based upon a serious weighing of the problem and an observation of the new rule in use during the past month...
...Moscow with urgent queries. When correspondents galloped into the Soviet Foreign Office on the diplomats' heels they were received by an official who said that he personally wished with all his heart that Soviet bombers were roaring toward Madrid. "Unhappily it is not so," shrugged this Bolshevik spokesman, "the Soviet has given its word that it will not intervene in Spain and the Soviet has always lived up to its word...
Karl Berngardovich Radek, the greatest journalist in Soviet Russia, repeatedly in recent years the spokesman of Joseph Stalin, and in recent months so potent that Moscow correspondents were calling him "the Second Foreign Commissar," was admitted by the Soviet Commissariat of Justice last week to be in jail awaiting trial for his life. Famed Journalist Radek (né Sobelsohn) suddenly "disappeared'" last month and neither his paper Izvestia ("News"), the official daily of the Soviet Government, nor any other Moscow organ printed a line as to the whereabouts of Communism's most popular commentator. According to such...
...German student," thundered Chancel lor Hitler's Minister for Education Bernhard Rust last week as that sober, pudgy schoolmaster warned fanatical National Socialist students to cease agitating against certain of their professors and get down to work. "I was greatly surprised to hear a student spokesman say that the student regards it as his duty ... to inspect professors and instructors thoroughly and bring to an end certain of their activities...