Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This all's-well fiction continued to crumble as reports, vigorously denied by Cárdenas spokesmen, poured in from the provinces. Four men were killed in a skirmish in the northern state of Durango. A train was reported held up near Almazán's Monterrey stronghold. Armed men boarded a ship in Veracruz, seized stores of frozen meat from Argentina. A hurried visit to the capital by the military commander of Chiapas started a flood of rumors that trouble was brewing in the south...
...pressure was, for the moment at least, triumphant. This was neither new nor even out of the ordinary. What was extraordinary last week was the great, mal-assorted conglomeration of minorities against conscription; the extreme inaction of the thwarted majority, the silence or ineptitude of most of its supposed spokesmen, the misinformation or lack of information which was permitted to imperil the majority will...
White House spokesmen took the same line, falling into a trap which Mr. Wallace had dug for himself. Republicans gleefully pointed out that Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was nominated on June 14, 1928, offered almost immediately to quit, stayed on at Calvin Coolidge's persuasion until August 21, when he resigned. Embarrassed Mr. Wallace quickly changed tune, said he would do whatever was "right, fair and just...
...Japanese were furious. They pasted anti-U. S. handbills in the streets, hired coolies to demonstrate. Both the Army and Navy spokesmen declared Japan grievously insulted. Newspapers screamed. But Colonel Peck wisely held his position, realizing that the conflict would soon degenerate into a petty hunt for lost face. It soon...
...that the college boys, to whom the learned professor paid his attention, do not believe that petitions should be formulated and circulated only by those of cultivated experience. On the other hand, it may be, as spokesmen for the collegians plainly described him, that he is one of those 'arm-chair patriots' who feel that nothing should be done, especially by young men, which would in any way hamper the efforts of France and Great Britain in their efforts to subdue Herr Hitler and his allies," the Boston Review continues...