Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here in Cambridge, the University's chapter of the American Veterans Committee took steps to offer relief to the 9,000 veterans at Harvard whose budgets would be hard hit by the V. A. failure. AVC spokesmen declared, however, that first consideration would be given where the need was greatest, and no policy of blanket loans was anticipated...
Organized labor wailed in agony. William Green had declared: "Hartley will be classified as one of labor's chief enemies." C.I.O. spokesmen called the measure "a poisonous witches' brew." Old New Dealers in Congress echoed them...
...which was to soften American public opinion at the very moment when the Government was trying its best to appear strong. Congress was incensed. The well-meaning Logan got no more than a tongue-lashing, but Congress passed the Logan Act as a curb on all future self-appointed spokesmen...
...began when the medicos formed a "Committee of 100" to sponsor a mild bill which would permit a doctor to give birth-control information to a patient whose health or life might be endangered by pregnancy. Roman Catholic spokesmen promptly opposed it. But the doctors had some unprecedented support: the Hartford Courant, first major Connecticut newspaper ever to come out on their side, 500 ministers, an Elmo Roper poll which showed that 85% of the state's citizens (including 75% of its Roman Catholics) favored the bill in principle...
...This unselfish act of the Workshop players and the Dramatic Club is appreciated enormously," Campbell stated, as spokesmen for both organizations disclosed the decision of their colleagues...