Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could explain the war news to them-the President-was not doing it. Or it was argued that the war was so vast that individual U.S. citizens could not hope to comprehend it, and were now pondering, bemused, while their radios warned them against complacency and their spokesmen chided them for their indifference...
...Nazi spokesmen last week announced the death from apoplexy of lean, athletic Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, 57, Commander of Germany's Sixth Army in the Ukraine, who was so stiffly Prussian that his friends said he wore his monocle in bed, but who had often extolled the Nazi cause as a great opportunity for the German Army...
Maintaining that they wanted to work, one of the strikers' spokesmen promised: "We'll buy defense bonds with the money A.F. of L. wants as dues and fees." More than a score signed up for Navy construction jobs in Hawaii. There, under Civil Service, they can toss their union cards into Pearl Harbor. And doubtless will...
First U.S. sport event definitely war-blanked, at least for 1942, is Akron's national Soap Box Derby, and the tournaments that precede it in 120 U.S. cities. As embarrassed as if they had to tell them there is no Santa Claus, spokesmen for the Chevrolet company, which puts up the prizes (college scholarships, automobiles, wrist watches, etc.), broke the news to U.S. youngsters. Alleged reason: shortage of rubber and metals for scooter wheels...
...British spokesmen said that French trucks, guns and tanks were already being used by Axis forces in Libya...