Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several city miles from the Main Street station. Recently a group of six persons with ten pieces of luggage took a taxi ride between stations and on arriving in answer to a question of fares, the taxi driver said "A quarter, Sir." "Twenty-five cents?" said the gentleman spokesman of the party, glancing at the others of his party grouped hopefully about him, and at the ten pieces of luggage arranged neatly about their feet. "Twenty-five dollars" might have sounded more familiar, but the taxi man stuck bravely to his first answer. So the gentleman handed...
...career of Henry van Dyke (The Story of the Other Wise Man) is one of the most ironic in the history of U. S. culture. Sophisticated readers may ignore his achievements, may feel considerable discomfort that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records...
...such a slip was to scare the daylights out of China by another "Shanghai Incident." In Peiping, where Japanese last week forced the installation of puppet Mayor Chin Teh-chuan, Japanese military authorities gave an inkling of what the Araki Brothers may be up to by having their official spokesman boom: "If North China should send her silver to Nanking, the economic structure of North China would collapse, and Japan's attempt to build up the prosperity of this part of China would fail. North China silver must be kept in North China...
...general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin, an authoritative Administration spokesman in his own right. Pundit Sullivan sometimes differed with the President in private, never in his dispatches. The Hoover Administration gave him, temporarily, an excessive fame and influence, fixed him firmly in the public mind as a biased political observer...
...Bolshevik? It might be best, some Nanking statesmen were saying at week's end, for China to team up not with Imperial Japan but with Bolshevik Russia. After all, so many Russians, including Stalin, are Asiatics and Bolsheviks have plenty of zip. Guardedly the Nanking Government spokesman said: "China has not yet been forced to decide between Japan and Russia, but some time in the future, perhaps, China must make this momentous decision...