Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plants. It was 30 days since Chrysler Corp. began to answer union slowdowns with shutdowns in Detroit. Wage losses totted up to $4,000,000. The corporation had lost the first cream of 1940's new business, seemed willing to go on losing while its executives and union spokesmen bickered, belied each other, failed even to agree on what the fighting was about. Union wives badgered their men to get back to work. Union men wished heartily that "The Old Man"-stricken Board Chairman Walter P. Chrysler-was back running his automobile plants...
BERLIN--Authorized Nazi spokesmen said tonight that Germany still hopes to recover the American steamer City of Flint and its cargo of contraband despite refusal of the Norwegian Government to detain the vessel at Bergen after internment of its Nazi prize crew...
...City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that this one should be kept in perspective. Quickly Government spokesmen made cold and quiet statements: although the U. S. position was that City of Flint's, voyage was legal, Germany acted according to international law in seizing the ship, putting a prize crew aboard, declaring the cargo contraband. True, nations have never been able to agree about what is contraband...
...British do it differently. Masters of fact-presenting as well as of fiction, they have managed to convince the world, by promptly reporting disasters (and, not so promptly, victories) that whatever comes from their official spokesmen is accepted as dead on the level...
...More often than not their chidings are ignored or their presumptions are smugly set aside as adolescent insolence. We are not certain, however, that either device will serve in the case of the Harvard Crimson's challenge to its own president and other intellectual leaders, as well as religious spokesmen...