Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge has many times heard his Official Spokesman's unquotable voice thrashed by the eminently quotable voice of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Last week the thrashing was severe. Said Mr. Reed: "I have learned that the White House Spokesman is even a more authentic source of information as to the Presidential mind than the President himself, if such a thing is possible. . . . Let us have done with this sham and this miserable boyish, childish attitude of the White House...
...question is "What will the United States think about it?" This is a grave situation, for Mexico is by race land, and culture bound against American imperialism, if there is any such thing. Mexico has become by the logic of her contact with Letin America, the Spiritual spokesman of Latin America...
Meanwhile Secretary Kellogg visited the White House. Next day "The White House Spokesman," which even Mexicans know is Washington patois for "President Coolidge," spoke. He said something to the general effect that there had been a complete misunderstanding of the Administration's attitude toward Mexico. The President, it seemed, had turned once with the Secretary to the extent of experiencing a change of heart about Bolshevism in Mexico which was now beside the point instead of being the point. But President Coolidge had not turned with Mr. Kellogg to the extent of wanting to arbitrate. Mr. Kellogg must thus...
...Delegates of the National Negro Development Union and the National Centre Political Party called on President Coolidge. Later, their spokesman told the press that the President had been "most cordial and sympathetic" and had "deplored" lynching...
When the Pope or some mighty cardinal issues a statement, the world knows that it represents the opinion of the Roman Catholic Church. But who is the spokesman of the populous Protestant churches? Not, for example, the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, which represents only one sect. There is an organization, however, whose pronouncements are few and carefully, prepared; it is the nearest approach to a Protestant opinion interpreter in the U. S.; its name is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and its president is Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, merry, easy-to-understand...