Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Hillman, 59, Lithuanian-born president of the C.I.O.'s well-disciplined Amalgamated Clothing Workers, founder of the P.A.C. and one of U.S. labor's political spokesmen; of coronary thrombosis; in Point Lookout, Long Island (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Curran, who had never really wanted a strike, was soon satisfied after Government spokesmen pushed a stack of chips to the middle of the table. The chips: for all seamen, a $17.50 flat monthly increase and overtime at $1 an hour. With normal overtime, now to begin after 48 hours instead of 56, this would give an AB (now making $145 a month) close to $200-what he earned in wartime. This was good enough for Curran's seagoing National Maritime Union...
France faced its most important decision since 1940. Yet the campaign preceding this Sunday's Constitution referendum was strangely blurred. The speeches of party spokesmen did not bring home to French voters how the Communist master carpenters of the Constitution were on the threshold of a new phase of power...
Chungking spokesmen conceded that the great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already...
Besides a stronger executive, the M.R.P. wanted a bicameral legislature and an independent judiciary; on all counts it was outvoted by narrow majorities. Its spokesmen-eloquent Maurice Schumann and quiet Francois de Menthon-warned against "government by the Assembly. " Veteran Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot echoed them: "This will inevitably mean dictatorship by the majority party. . . . Separation of legislative and executive powers, the essential foundation of democracy, has been cast to the winds...