Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation of Negroes called at the White House and addressed Mr. Coolidge thus through th?ir spokesman: "In behalf of the 15,000 colored Congregationalists of the United States, we greet you as a fellow-Congregationalist in whom we have full confidence. . . . "Particularly do we want to thank you for that great word you spoke at Omaha, the bravest word spoken by any Executive for three-score years. It sounds like Lincoln...
...Morris Fishbein, as Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is spokesman for over 90,000 physicians and surgeons- the largest body of medical men in the world. Few laymen read medical journals, for they inevitably suspect, behind the lurch and trundle of ill-teamed words, the machinations of a cloudy mind. Dr. Fishbein's words are graphic; he is possessed of what George Meredith called "the first condition of sanity"-a belief that our present civilization is founded on common sense. In a new book he shows what a neat and glittering weapon this common sense...
...clearly defined, must eventually capitulate or starve. Unfortunately for the cause of labor, the railroad men rouse the opposition of the local medical profession by extending their food boycott even to the Valleyhead Infirmary. To bring relief, two young surgeons, despite the secret warning of Ben Ormerod, the spokesman of the employees, attempt to run the blockade. Dr. Eric Miller is killed; and his friend, Dr. John Wrigley, overcome by the disaster, enlists the other doctors in a counter strike...
They came, as a spokesman of their party told officers of the University, to see the University which had done so much to further German art in this country through its Germanic Museum. It is to visit the Germanic Museum, in particular, that these Germans are making their pilgrimage to Cambridge. They will also inspect the Engineering School, and from there proceed to the Peabody Museum, the Business School...
...Chairman O'Connor of the Shipping Board called and was closeted with President Coolidge. At a conference with reporters the President's spokesman denied that he was about to request Mr. O'Connor's resignation; also declared that if the League of Nations calls a Disarmament Conference the U. S. will not take part unless Congress so authorizes...