Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...document temporarily lost at the White House last week was China's inquiry about Farm Board wheat (see p. 11). The State Department said the message had gone to the White House. There a "stated official source"-that is, the Hoover secretariat which has replaced the "White House spokesman" since the President plugged news leaks-denied its receipt. Later the Chinese inquiry turned up, somehow, at the Farm Board...
...laborers from the mountain villages of Abiles, Dona Ines, La Paca. Some came in carts, some swung their brown heels against the moldy sides of sad-eyed donkeys, but most were on foot, faint from hunger. They had come to Lorca to live. Not for seven years, said the spokesman, had a drop of rain fallen on Abiles, Dona Ines, or La Paca...
...signal for an attack by the Ford Motor Company on Mayor Frank Murphy who had refused to use his influence in setting aside a city tax levy on a $2,000,000 Ford tunnel. The chief of the Ford Motor Company police department was chosen as the Ford spokesman. He hurled charges wild and vague, finally narrowing them down to 329 specific cases of "apparent fraud" in which Ford workmen accepted city welfare. To date less than 100 of these cases have been shown to be fraudulent-100 cases...
...Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) and Whitefoord R. Cole (Louisville & Nashville) appeared to repeat orally their written arguments for a rate increase. Mr. Pelley, speaking for all eastern roads, contended that the rate increase was sought only to tide the roads over to better times and avert wage cuts. Spokesman for all Western lines, Mr. Scandrett testified that the carriers asked for a rate increase only as "a last resort" to save their credit structure. He felt that the I. C. C. should not interest itself too much in Industry's ability to pay a higher charge...
...Romano, made it a political war (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The Pope was more disturbed by the manner in which his encyclical had been interpreted as a challenge. After he had pored over Mussolini's retort, he let it be announced that he felt relieved. The Vatican spokesman said...