Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish some of those bigoted persons who are the spokesmen for the unfortunate people of the Southern states would spend a week in this Army hospital. It would be a valuable lesson for them...
...halloo began when M.G.M. announced plans to picturize Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eliza would be Negro Torch Singer Lena Horne; Southern Gentleman St. Clare, venerable Lewis Stone; Little Eva, Margaret O'Brien. Simon Legree was not cast, but the producer was to be Arthur Hornblow. Promptly, Negro spokesmen and liberal Whites spiked the plan of Hollywood's most conservative studio...
...Farm spokesmen warned: Unless draft boards ease up on agricultural workers, U.S. food production will suffer. Said the President: "We are well equipped in food and munitions but their production has drawn overheavily on our stock of manpower. It is time to strike a new balance. . . . The present situation is so grave...
...irritation is much less evident. The facts seem to be that Messrs. Hull and Roosevelt were pretty well informed of the immediate Soviet attitude, were not unduly surprised by such performances as the Moscow denunciation of Wendell Willkie and earlier Moscow attacks on proposals for European federations. U.S. spokesmen will be in a position to question Russia's diplomacy when-and only when -they are able to convince Joseph Stalin that the U.S. and its people are in European affairs to stay...
...Navy spokesmen last week tried to correct the impression at home that Tarawa's cost had been too high (TIME...