Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiroshima; in ways that could not be revealed, it was also, said Army & Navy officers, so much of an improvement that the first bomb was obsolete. It exploded on or near the ground, blasted a ghastly crater. It destroyed only one square mile of the Kyushu seaport, but spokesmen said that it had been more devastating than the first...
...Washington, where most Congressmen were aware of the turmoil, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg stepped up with a plan for industrial peace. He proposed that top spokesmen for labor, management and Government get around a conference table, face their problems in the manner of the United Nations. Asked Vandenberg: "Is it impossible to apply this formula at home in respect to vital industrial relationships?" Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach promptly agreed it was a good idea...
...seed had been planted. It could not be overlooked by such Big Business spokesmen as Munitions Minister Teijiro Toyoda, a Mitsui man. The Potsdam declaration invited him and his friends to take a practical look at what would be left of their properties if the homeland was invaded...
...Four were the boss, they reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...
Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue. But Big Power spokesmen pointed out that five out of the six small nations on the Council could exercise a veto, too-if they stood together...