Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons against the food shipments are hazy, to say the least. British spokesmen answered Darlan by saying that they were willing to try out a plan of relief but that no plan had been proposed. Mr. Hoover's committee stands ready and waiting in America. It is claimed that Britain's effort will be impaired by leakage of food to the Nazis. But the fact is that the Hoover proposal makes allowance for this, and guarantees a cessation of shipments if it occurs; the plan is air tight. Another argument is that it is "not America's business" to question...
...weeks before, Knudsenhillman, OPM's doubleheaded boss, had tried and signally failed to untangle the Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, March 3). Knudsenhillman took another deep breath, summoned Bethlehem spokesmen and union heads to Washington. While striking workers fought with Buffalo police, William Knudsen and Sidney Hillman labored for peace...
Grace Under Pressure. Bethlehem, under President Eugene Grace, had doggedly resisted C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee from the start. Doggedly, Bethlehem spokesmen rejected S. W. O. C.'s terms for ending the Lackawanna strike. The terms: 1) reinstatement of workers who had been fired over a wage dispute; 2) an immediate conference between management and the union to discuss grievances; 3) an election at the plant to determine a bargaining agent and a promise from the company to sit down and bargain. When the company threatened to demand that the militia be called out, Knudsen...
...Sumner Welles gave a clear reply to a vague Japanese claim of peaceful aims. He said, "In the very critical world situation which exists today, the Government of the United States is far more interested in the deeds of other nations than in the statements that some of their spokesmen may make...
...While this strange propaganda rallied more & more blacks to the cause, Haile Selassie and his forces took Danghila, south of Lake Tana and only 200 miles from Addis Ababa. Djibouti, the capital's port on the Gulf of Aden, was reported crowded with Italian refugees, and British military spokesmen began to predict a hasty Italian withdrawal to Addis Ababa for a strong last stand...