Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. This Biblical quotation might last week have served as an epitaph for the famed White House Spokesman, born 1924, died 1927. He was brought into being by Washington correspondents, who, forbidden to quote directly what President Coolidge said at bi-weekly White House conferences, invented the Spokesman as their authority...
...White House Spokesman's conference with newspapermen was suddenly interrupted when his white collie, Rob Roy, barked loudly, rushed to the Spokesman's side. "What's the matter?" said the Spokesman. "Are they stepping on your toes...
James A. Reed, Missouri Senator, tried to look puzzled as he reverted to his game of baiting the White House spokesman. "Why don't the newspapers photograph the White House spokesman?" said he to reporters. "What does this mysterious person look like? The newspapers are always printing pictures of people prominent in the news. The White House spokesman is always being quoted. He is constantly in the news. But I've never yet seen a picture...
...Official White House Spokesman did not mention it last week, but doubtless the President and Mrs. Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie...
...week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman of self-righteousness...