Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President was "not very happy." He was convinced that the pending bill was a Treasury raid embracing "every proposal, like the creek that happens...
Again, Senator Fess has ever been a Coolidge man, a "Coolidge-anyway" man. Only once has he endeavored to dispel the impression that he is the Coolidge spokesman in the Senate, and he later confessed that that one endeavor was only a political charade. The object of the "Coolidge-anyway" movement has been to block Candidate Hoover with uninstructed delegates and its aim, according to pessimists, is another "hotel room" nomination. The choice of Keynoter Fess seemed like a peep through the hotel room keyhole...
...Eastering in Bermuda, Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, Senate spokesman for Secretary Mellon, told people: "Of course, we would all gladly jump on the Hoover bandwagon. But is there a bandwagon...
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, spokesman of the Federal oil investigation, will speak under the auspices of the Democratic Club in Symphony Hall, Boston, on the evening of April 12. It was formerly announced that Senator Walsh would appear in the Union, but due to the increased size of the meeting it was though advisable to meet in Symphony Hall...
...Virgin Islands. Each and everyone was to vote for Candidate Smith. In Manhattan it became known that Candidate Smith would formalize his candidacy the week following Easter. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is the Smith campaign manager. He will run for Congress, hoping to be White House spokesman in the House of Representatives...