Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly indicated in the President's memorable Chicago speech that he wishes to abandon isolationism. "America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore America actively engages in the search for peace." And recently the trend to cooperation has been reenforced by several Administration spokesmen, notably Secretary Woodring...
Most familiar in the group was the face of John L. Lewis. Hardly less conspicuous were the lanky figure of Owen D. Young and the wizened features of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Accompanying these recognized spokesmen of Labor, Industry and Finance were two early...
...prototype in U. S. history, the New Deal has made the seventh President's birthday a national political fiesta. Last week, at 36 Jackson Day dinners all over the U. S., $400,000 was raised (wiping out the deficit of the Democratic Party) and New Deal spokesmen let out a chorus of oratory matchless in volume. Unfortunately the Jackson Day chorus-instead of proving an overwhelming performance for which the antimonopoly speeches of Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson last fortnight were a curtain raiser-turned out mainly as a majestic anticlimax...
...unwritten policy-Anti-New Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when the most charitable liberal observation was the New Republic's: that that year's convention was a "perfect example of Bourbonism in full flower." Even the New York Times remarked caustically that "spokesmen for business organizations ought not to sound like the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...first time in ten weeks all the rival Japanese forces at Shanghai-the land, sea and air forces of the Son of Heaven-buried their mutual jealousies last week and clicked together in the unified "big push" which Japanese spokesmen had been daily heralding for so long that Shanghai correspondents were becoming incredulous. In Tokyo the Ministers of the Army and Navy are not responsible to the Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country...