Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meany introduced the lone Administration spokesman. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, as "a good friend of "mine-I want everyone to know that." Said Mitchell: "I have enough faith in the basic health of the American economy to state that by October of this year there will be 67 million people at work, 3,000,000 more than there are today, and that unemployment will be 3,000,000 or less. And may I say to my friend George Meany: If this isn't so, George, when the October figures come out, on the steps of the Labor Department...
...letter day for the newly-formed Social Progressive Party, a group of eight undergraduates who disapprove of the Harvard Socialist Club on the grounds that it "only discusses matters which should have been decided by its very name," Gerald P. Burns '62, a spokesman for the Party said yesterday...
...earned him the inevitable comparison with Thucydides--and he richly deserves it. It was not long after Pearl Harbor that Morison had the brain wave that resulted in a brilliant 13-volume history of U. S. naval operations. Even before the December 7 disaster he had become a prominent spokesman on maritime affairs. His active pre-war support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy won Time magazine's epithet, "a Boston Brahmin with a brain;" and in April, 1941 his urging that convoys accompany supply ships crossing the Atlantic was but an example of his acute perception of naval problems...
...Russians were quick to register an official protest. Claiming a "prescriptive right" to heights over 10,000 ft., they first warned darkly that "there may be incidents if the Americans fly above the altitude again without negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White replied that the U.S. "has never accepted any altitude ceiling" in the air corridors. Next day the Russian "warning" was backed down to a simple statement that air collisions with Russian planes might result, added: "But that does not mean that any American aircraft would be molested or attacked." Finally Moscow got around to a diplomatic...
...Yale Daily News spokesman last night stated that the New Haven police had legitimate charges on only six of the 42 students originally arrested, and that there was little chance of convicting the remainder...