Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laborites in Parliament voted him into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench Nye would now have to preserve at least a semblance of party unity, behave politely to Opposition Leader Attlee and save his insults for Prime Minister Churchill, whom he once described as "a bloated bladder of lies." From across the way, Churchill would doubtless find...
According to spokesmen for the MTA, this extension has been under consideration since before 1945. The survey now under way will probably require two-and-one-half months for completion...
After the opposing speakers have presented their views, a spokesman for each party takes the floor to expound his party's position on the issue at stake. The spokesmen and policy for each party are determined at caucuses preceding the main meeting. After the party spokesmen finish, party members who may have been outvoted in caucus present their views. The meetings end with a vote of the House to determine the PU's stand on the issue presented...
...Athletic Director Robert A. Hall. supported by spokesmen from Columbia, Dartmouth, and Brown, immediately branded as untrue the charges made against Yale and the Ivy schools...
...there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which the beaten enemy was a foreign invader, not misled countrymen"; 4) the church, expressing itself through a Catholic Action leader: "Civil war is sometimes a necessity, but always hideous. The wound must be healed and forgotten, if we don't wish to perpetuate the source...