Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efforts to provide good medical care for every citizen cause acrimonious rows among doctors. MARCH OF TIME has the spokesmen of conflicting schools present their diverse solutions...
Japan's military spokesmen in Shanghai declared that 250,000 confused, ill-armed, uncommanded-troops were hopelessly trapped in the Suchow area. At Hankow, China's temporary capital, Chinese commanders were more optimistic, said their best troops had withdrawn, claimed recapture of two towns, announced that they were engaged upon a little encircling themselves. The entire length of the 630-mile Tientsin-Pukow Railway is now nominally under Japanese control, although the Japanese will have to operate it against ceaseless Chinese guerilla attacks. For Japan's political administrators in China the victory means that Chinese puppets...
...sweeping Goring decree demanded registration of all Jewish holdings worth more than $2,000 (5,000 marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Göring also provided stiff prison terms for recalcitrants using "Aryan" dummies or splitting up their properties. Nazi spokesmen admitted that the decree was a preliminary measure to dispossession and confiscation of what Jewish wealth still remained in Germany...
When President J. J. Pelley of the American Association of Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad...
...Honeycombe said that he once worked in the American Communist Party in California, and in general his long statement was annoying to the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln-George Washington Battalion, spokesmen for whom were soon declaring in Manhattan: "Honeycombe is nothing but a liar...