Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
...missiles' most likely origin: Peenemünde, former V-bomb base on Germany's Soviet-occupied Baltic coast. Swedish Army spokesmen knew little beyond the fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
While the overwhelming majority of Jewish spokesmen deplored the outrage, an extremist Zionist band known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi took credit for it. Inferentially, it deprecated the loss of life by claiming to have telephoned a warning to the King David's switchboard...
Rehearsal for Trouble. Arab spokesmen said they would not sit with Jews. In Palestine, they had instituted a boycott against Jewish merchants, with heavy fines for noncompliance. In New York, Arabs began moving to put the Palestine question on the agenda of the September meeting of U.N.'s General Assembly (in which the Arab states have five votes). That might well be the point at which Russia enters the game as the champion of Islam, a role Moscow has been quietly rehearsing for the past two years...
...Chicago, a committee of bigwigs of both leagues mulled it over, made a precedent-breaking decision: before they draft next year's uniform contracts (containing rules for individual player contracts), they will listen to grievances of player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...