Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without taking over administration of the colleges or requisitioning the use of the educational facilities, the armed forces will definitely use the nation's universities as training centers for soldiers, spokesmen of the Army and Navy announced at a meeting of Atlantic coast educators in New York on Friday. Simultaneously the ERC announced that opportunities for enlistment would be extended to December 31, instead of closing tomorrow...
...German radio clamored about "brutal assault . . . shameless breach . . . gangster methods . . . imperialistic aims . . . piece of impudence." In keeping, Tokyo broadcasters squeaked and hissed: "Illegal . . . international banditry ... a most ungentlemanly act." Bern reported that Rome was in a state of "stupefied pessimism," and Rome's radio spokesmen admitted that "the horizon is black. . . . Tonight the Italian people . . . is facing a terrible trial...
...Next day the New York Times headlined: MANPOWER MOVES BY MCNUTT ARE HIT FROM THREE SIDES. What made this really newsworthy was that one of the main groups crunching Mr. McNutt was the Manpower Commission's own main policy-making body, a committee of labor and industry spokesmen. The committee was now in revolt against McNutt's pressure for a compulsory service law. Boss McNutt had already said that he deemed this group to be merely "advisory...
...Tokyo's purpose was to frighten U.S. airmen with threats of savage punishment ("including the death penalty"), Tokyo had failed. If an incidental purpose was to further Berlin's prisoner-propaganda, the Japs had succeeded. If their purpose was to discredit U.S. official spokesmen, they had a certain measure of success. The Office of War Information argued that there were sensible-but secret-reasons for withholding the fact that some flyers had landed in Japanese territory. If so, this did not excuse falsification, and it did not better the plight of the captured pawns...
French resistance to Vichy and to the Nazis over the conscription of French workers had brought on strikes, sabotage, demonstrations, civil fighting. Before this, British and French spokesmen had cautioned the French people, telling them to lie low, to hold their fire, to keep their heads down, to move away from Allied bombing targets, to sabotage safely, to resist passively . . . until the time came...