Word: spokesmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as returns reached the Cortes, Conservative deputies were up in their seats yelling for power. Oppositionists gathered under the spokesmanship of a fiery Sevillian, Martinez Barrios. Premier Azana, fighting not only for the Socialist coalition but for the Republic, called on each of the opposition leaders personally to beg for a truce. In his peppery, nasal Andalusian voice Senor Barrios snapped...
Organized medicine is slowly, deliberately hoisting young Birth Control astride its broad old back. The New York Academy of Medicine, which subtly is striving for spokesmanship of the U. S. profession, last week formally stated that it wants lifted all laws which restrain physicians from imparting birth control information; and that medical schools and hospital clinics should teach contraceptive methods. Argument: contraception, long a fact and now a spreading practice, should be placed under highest-grade medical control...