Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumpus. At the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee, management and employe had rolled and wrestled for more than three weeks while work on $45,000,000 worth of Army and Navy contracts for turbines, shafts, pumps, gun parts ceased. Patience exhausted, Knudsenhillman sent identical telegrams to Milwaukee, urgently "requesting" spokesmen for both sides to hurry to Washington. There defense officials threw them at U. S. Conciliation Service Director John R. Steelman. At week's end Knudsenhillman, perspiring and triumphant, announced that the dispute was ended, workers would go back to work, management would grant "union security." But, warned Knudsenhillman...
...words of Japanese spokesmen were full of meaning, in their contradictions as well as their consistencies. For the Cabinet, Spokesman Ko Ishii purred: "We do not see the imminence of war in the Pacific." For the Army,. Major Kunio Akiyama barked: "Japan will not disturb the waves of the Pacific, but if strong pressure is applied she will be compelled to take certain measures." For the chauvinists, Tokyo Kokumin shrilled that U. S. activity in the Pacific was "approaching a state of war." For the realists, Japanese correspondents in French Indo-China stated: "Japan will move against Anglo-American interests...
...original Salzgitter "works, it is understood in Germany today that the Göring trust is 100% State-owned, that the Marshal runs it as an agent of the State, which pays him a salary (plus bonuses in art treasures-see cut, p. 79). At its inception, Nazi spokesmen used to say that the whole trust would one day be returned to private control. Today they...
Nevertheless, he joins an underground campaign of socialists all over Europe to prevent war. Dismayed at the sight of socialist spokesmen backsliding into patriotism, he hopes to the last for a miracle, a general strike-something. But the war begins and he loses his life in a last, wild, hallucinatory attempt to stop it. Then Author Martin du Gard hurdles clear over the war to 1918, when Antoine, mustard-gassed in medical service and dying of abscessed lungs, lives just long enough to see the Armistice...
SHANGHAI--Britain's sensational military moves in Singapore and elsewhere in southeast Asia are part of a joint British-American plan to "strangle Japan" and will be countered with appropriate measures, Japanese spokesmen said today...