Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train drew in, the Polish Foreign Office was defining Marshal Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...
...clock struck before the street was full of furious Nazis. They smashed Weber's window and his lights, then sloshed buckets of black paint over his dainty dress goods, daubed the whole shop and made matclhwood of the counters. "When you consider," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment next morning, "that in the entire city of Berlin only this Jew, this unspeakable Weber, had to be dealt with, the vast obscuration maneuvers can be called an entire success...
Snapped a spokesman: "Details of that agreement have never been revealed and remain unavailable." Few days later, after the Hitler bombshell at Berlin (see below), North Dakota's irate Gerald Nye, chairman of the U. S. Senate's munitions quiz, thundered: "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so they can sell their wares...
...Moscow the Chinese Embassy blandly pointed out that Soviet Russia, by her agreement of 1924 with China, specifically engaged not to sell or surrender Russia's rights in the C. E. R. to any third power without China's consent. Nettled, the Soviet Embassy spokesman in Nanking snapped: "China has for years been unable to exercise her rights or duties regarding the C. E. R. She cannot properly reproach us. We consider this Chinese protest a mere formality...
Through his spokesman, Sonator Robinson, President Roosevelt, stated that he would veto either the Patman or Vinson bonus bill, should one of them pass Congress. The news is thankfully received by all thoughtful people in the country, for passage of one of the other appears certain. Many people feel that President Roosevelt should explain his attitude and muster public opinion solidly behind...