Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dwarfed its spokesmen. What did it matter if British and French answers to Hitler pointed out flaws in the Fuhrer's logic? What did it matter if his arguments were inconsistent, if he contradicted speeches made before? What did it matter if Stalin reversed his own policies, if his followers denied one day what they had said the day before...
...using obsolete equipment raises costs, prices begin to pyramid, and panicked customers overbuy. The result is often an inventory depression. Example: 1937. For this among other reasons many a businessman last week had his fingers crossed about a war boom. One of U. S. industry's most influential spokesmen, President Howard Coonley of National Association of Manufacturers (also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of American Standards Association, which is trying to eliminate bottlenecks by promoting standardization) took time out to broadcast : ". . . We have no illusions. . . . Economic chaos and years of crushing depression are [war's] inevitable aftermath. . . . ultimately...
...King was speaking the German armies were driving to smash the Polish defensive triangle of Lwow-Lublin-Cracow before winter weather aided the Poles. While the bombers were loading, the Chancelleries were preparing their papers to place the guilt of launching the war (see p. 20). Then, the spokesmen stepped from the stage of history; the silent generals took their place...
...same ends by different- and generally deceptive-means. Or they went South American or Russian (see p. 35), viewed with frank satisfaction making money from the war. Or they decided that the whole turmoil baffled understanding, that its reports held no truth, the speeches of all its spokesmen held some hidden meaning that by the chemistry of distance was lost as it crossed the Atlantic...
Defeat. Vibrant as a piano wire, Europe resounded with each blow anywhere upon it. Defeat in Poland meant Policy in Moscow; neutrality in Rome built fortifications in Rumania. As the great organizations of war collided last week, as the spokesmen of belligerents and neutrals said what they had to say, one fact stood out: Germany had lost the war of nerves that had raged through the pre-War summer. No Polish ally backed down. Isolated Germany began the fighting. No friend moved to aid her in the 26 countries of Europe, and although a swift Polish victory could draw them...