Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spokesman." Mr. Houghton was summoned from London to the White House (TIME, March 29) to give the President what is sometimes called "the low down" on Europe. Senator Harrison found no fault with that. He called the move "all right . . . well, proper and good." What caused the Senator anguish was an interview which Mr. Houghton gave to the press, in accepted White House fashion. That is, he spoke through a "spokesman," a mythical third person whom the President invokes as his mouthpiece, in order that what the "spokesman" says may be contradicted next day, if necessary...
...Gloomy Gus." Mr. Houghton's "spokesman" interview roused the Senator from Mississippi to fury because Mr. Houghton allegedly said a great many desperately important things, if they are true, which the Senator felt the Administration should either stand behind or keep secret. Cried Senator Harrison: "There is no one who does harm and injury that can be condemned more than the assassin who conceals himself behind some bush and fires unnoticed the shot into the back of the passing victim...
Ignored. At the President's press conference, last week, questions dealing with "the Houghton incident" were pointedly ignored by "the White House spokesman" (i. e., Calvin Coolidge). The "spokesman" did disclose, however, that the administration has not been dissuaded from its announced intent of sending a U. S. representative to the preliminary League disarmament conference...
President Coolidge, nothing daunted by the Warren affair of last spring, is preparing for another brush with the Senate. Through the White House spokesman he has just announced his intention not to withdraw the appointment of Judge McCamant to the Federal Circuit Court, which the Senatorial Judiciary Committee has recently rejected...
...unlimited power of the Supreme Court, has been a perennial progressive plank, there is little doubt that the appointee's conservatism has alienated the insurgents. It is also quite probable that the Democrats, who are still nursing their wrath at the remarks directed at them by the White House spokesman, will be glad to take advantage of this opportunity to revenge themselves upon the Administration. With prospects of facting the same unholy alliance which has proved a stumbling block for his so many times, it looks as if the occasion which the President has chosen to domonstrate his ability...