Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After World War II Thomas moved into international Rotary as a director, won quick recognition as an articulate Rotary spokesman and idea man. As Rotary's president, he will devote his time to developing more "people-to-people contact" among nations. Says he: "There is a tremendous area for the development of friendship and good will on a personal basis-something no government can accomplish. We should not be concerned with the techniques of peace, but with the will to peace...
...benefits, except at the establishment actually on strike. Under the law, each company is liable for benefits paid to its employees. When its balance is drawn down, its payroll taxes go up until the proper reserve is established. In any future strike on the Canton pattern, said a Ford spokesman last week, the company must figure on paying $3,000,000 a week to U.A.W. members on top of the loss of sales...
...week's end junketing Sukarno reached Japan in his chartered Pan Am plane, celebrating his 58th birthday aboard. Before returning to his racked island nation, he intends to visit North Viet Nam and Cambodia. A spokesman for Sukarno said airily: "If it were a critical situation in Indonesia, the President would have stayed home...
...Demos admittedly does not try to convert in his philosophy class. His self-described role is that of the actor, speaking for the various philosophers. For the instructor, the role of the believer yields to that of the impartial spokesman expounding the bits of wisdom and insight which each philosopher offers. The values of teaching many philosophical claims to truth thus take precedence over the teaching of the professor's own convictions...
...gathering of the statesmen was movingly symbolic of what John Foster Dulles had become in the eyes of the world: not only the Secretary of State of the world's greatest power, but a champion and spokesman of the entire free world in its struggle with Communism, and a warrior for peace and freedom...