Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spokesman Coolidge told the press that he saw no cause for intervention at present, that he would keep hands off unless something serious happened...
...President oft-twitted, was rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
...Spokesman told the press in the brief conference held last week, that reports about his active participation in Congressional campaigns this fall (in behalf of Senator Butler of Massachusetts or any other Republican) should be regarded as purely speculative; that Senator Wadsworth of New York is coming to visit him this summer; that the Adirondacks are a delightful spot; that the mosquito ravages had been exaggerated. The gentlemen of the press were impressed by the tan and the high spirits of the President...
Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote asking Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to intervene, appended a catalogue of acts committed by the police which he declared to be "mockeries of justice...
...over the country little knots of pressmen guardedly voiced their secret glee at what they considered a body blow to the Administration's "spokesman" system. Famed Washington correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sini, who has consistently twitted Mr. Coolidge on one ground or another ever since he appeared at Washington as Vice President, was openly delighted last week. He gloated: "Mr. Kellogg had a nervous fit. There was perturbation in the Coolidge circle. The trouble was they had been thinking in terms of domestic publicity, not world publicity. What they got was world publicity, and a large...