Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once or twice every week, he makes believe that he is not President Coolidge, but Spokesman Coolidge. By this ingenious system, he can educate the citizenry through the press, explain the Administration policies, and never be committed to anything. President Coolidge is purported to be a silent man; but Spokesman Coolidge (with the aid of plentiful padding by newspaper correspondents) has become a garrulous soul. In fact, press despatches concerning him and his views have totalled 1,209,739 words in 62 days of his vacation...
Last week a nervous little man grinned his twisted grin in the grounds of White Pine Camp. He offered a proposition to President Coolidge-to set aside 20 vaults of the proposed $2,000,000 Archives Building in order to preserve for posterity historical films. Spokesman Coolidge expressed himself as favorably impressed with the idea, pointed out how educational it would be if this generation could observe President Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg address. The little man, no stranger to Presidents, was Movie Monarch Will H. Hays and as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed strangely pleased...
...Spokesman Coolidge called the gentlemen of the press together last week, informed them that he had reason to be vexed. First, he emphatically denied rumors which said that the U. S. would make tariff concessions to Europe in order to be admitted to the World Court. Then, he urged all news papers to refrain from the dissemination of rumors and confine themselves to . facts in relating foreign news. Said The New York World: "Mr. Coolidge ... in the talk of the street, had his nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper...
Senator Phipps, smooth-spoken, onetime vice president of the Carnegie Steel Co., hence the best-dressed man in the Senate, represents the State of Colorado. As electioneering spokesman for his party, he deems the prime issue to be whether or not the country desires "continuance of an unprecedented national prosperity produced by the present Republican majority under the leadership of President Coolidge." How has this prosperity been attained? By- 1) The limitation of arms in the Washington Conference so that tax payers are saved five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building...
Next day Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, active spokesman for the Mexican Episcopate was granted an audience with President Calles. Though the Government was reported to have stood firm on the letter of the present anti-religious laws, Bishop Diaz hinted guardedly to newsgatherers that a formula might be found under which the holding of Catholic services would be tolerated, though discouraged by the State...