Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called in in 1918 to direct War Finance Corp., whom President Harding called back in 1921, whom President Coolidge reappointed in 1925, and who last May was made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy and impartial advice has won him the confidence of all but professional farm agitators. In his opinion, there would have been no Farm Problem this year but for the election. McNary-Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer...
...thing called the Equalization Fee spells emancipation for Honest John Farmer. Just exactly what Honest John Farmer thinks about it is hard to tell, because he raises such a variety of crops with such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this was a 1928 model not yet hyphenated, applied to all farm products except meats, vegetables and fruits. In general, Honest John Farmer could be said to favor it. Hence...
...went out from Jerusalem after they had seen Christ die and disappear. This Easter, almost as if the twist of centuries had reversed the lines of force around Jerusalem, the men who are carrying Christianity into the corners of the world were drawn back to Palestine. Two hundred delegates, spokesmen for powerful Christian forces in 51 countries, gathered in Jerusalem for the International Missionary Council (TIME, April...
Leaders & Spokesmen: 1) For Capital, Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, towering manufacturer of industrial chemicals, father of the present Conference, into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...
...spokesmen announce that 10,000 people would go to Washington to lobby for the flood control legislation prepared at a conference which Mayor Thompson lately called independently of Federal agencies...