Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously--as Mr. Greene admits--there is no legalism preventing an appearance by Browder. Less obviously, good taste does not prevent it, since Browder would appear in his capacity as a Communist spokesman rather than in his role as a passport violator. Granted that he has broken some highly technical regulations laid down by the United States government, his integrity or capability as leader of the Communist party are not impugned by this fact. He remains the most articulate exponent of one view on War and Neutrality, and as such, he should be heard by Harvard students...
With over 500 names already on its petition, the Committee to Save Harvard Education has launched a new protest to the Administration's policy of reducing the number of assistant professors, Irwin Ross '40, spokesman for the committee, announced yesterday...
...Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman for Frank Murphy replied: "It obviously seems to be a curious coincidence that the Republican National Committee issues a statement tonight. . . . The facts are that the department has been actively preparing this case and others . . . and that it expects decisive action in a few hours...
Officially the Wilhelmstrasse was not only bitterly disappointed but speechless. Growled an unofficial spokesman: "God help the Anatolian peasants. There are no trees there for them to hide behind when the bombers come. There were trees in Poland...
...their non-aggression pact in late August, Communists outside Russia have performed one verbal trapeze act after another. Particularly embarrassed by the Stalin-Hitler handshaking was British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, a stocky 48-year-old man long known as the British Party's "ablest propagandist and spokesman." Although he had long praised the Soviet Union, defended Dictator Stalin's frequent purges and written powerful pieces against Fascist aggressions, Secretary Pollitt could not see his way to follow the new "party line...