Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only is "Mell" the dean of Harvard writers, but he does not hesitate to associate with the callow Harvard correspondents who get their news daily form the official spokesman of Soldiers Field. True, he does not depend entirely upon this source, for his friendship with coaches, officials and former players is a wide one, but he is on the spot almost every afternoon when the news is given...
...around Cambridge without its finding its way into the columns of the Herald via Hapgood. His pleasant easy-going style is famous for taking a longer space to say nothing than the style of any other one of the similarly accomplished Harvard correspondents. On some mornings when the official spokesman of the H.A.A. has been especially vague and Hapgood's football story has been exceptionally long. Dick has been known to break down and tearfully confess that, long as the story was, it had been cut mercilessly by the Herald copy editors...
...mind as the genial Transcript news gatherer. He is seldom seen on Soldiers Field for the afternoon practice sessions, but he spends a good deal of time at the Harvard Athletic Association during the morning hours. He but seldom waits for Harvard news to be released through the official spokesman, much preferring to get his stuff straight from Harvard's athletic head in an intimate manner...
...come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from Senator Fess by saying that not even in the Senate days of William Morgan Butler of Massachusetts did the Coolidge Administration have an accredited Senate spokesman. Nevertheless, Senator Fess continued welcome at the White House and constantly was seen there. This particular morning he was, he said, going to talk with President Coolidge about railroad laws...
Menace. U. S. chemical manufacturers are alarmed. Francis P. Garvan, alert President of the Chemical Foundation in New York and spokesman for U. S. producers, regards the combination as a menace. Said he last week: "Is there an American with soul so dead as not to thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon...