Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monumental calm which broods ever the White House in season and out has been broken by the official spokesman of the administration. The lesser of President Coolidge's twin personalities announced. Tuesday that the country should not credit the political minded critics of the administration...
...vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General Pershing was not ill, and was backed up by news cables from Arica which described him as enjoying perfectly good health...
...Cynical persons predicted the hour when the Peking Customs Conference (see CHINA) would be touted as "the Chinese Locarno." Meanwhile this felicitous spirit was rumored to have flown in at the door of the St. James's Club, famed exclusive rendezvous of London diplomats. As a result, a spokesman for the German Embassy hinted that his colleagues are shortly to be invited back into the club, which has been closed to them since...
...shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall-rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens-John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood on exhibit...
President von Hindenburg, on the other hand, was reported to have scored the Nationalists privately as "bulls in a china shop," and exclaimed: "So! First these Nationalists assured me that I am their spokesman, and now I find myself standing alone, my position endangered...