Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three airplanes slid out of the sky and alighted at Boiling Field, Washington. A delegation carrying an invitation climbed out and proceeded to the White House. Mr. Coolidge received them. The spokesman, Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie"), Rickenbacker, made a little "speech and presented the strange invitation-an airplane with a wingspread of about two feet, and on its upper wing the words...
...Calm yourselves, gentlemen," said the spokesman of the Reichstag Decoration Committee, "President Ebert's bust was merely put there to see how it looks. Moltke's will be back soon. So will Bismarck...
...debt situation, and urged prominent tourists to hold their peace. That part of the press which is friendly to the Administration echoed the sentiments and flayed the talking tourists as "meddlers," "muddlers," "hand-kissers," "knee-crookers," "ax-grinders," "sycophants." The result was that, a few days later, the unofficial spokesman, speaking "informally but authoritatively," declared that the U. S. meant just what it said when it invited foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners take too much comfort from the kindly talk of U. S. citizens abroad- that...
...Protests against "anonymous government," arising from the President's refusal to be quoted directly in newspaper interviews, were anonymously ignored. Foreign governments, said a White House "spokesman," disregard all but official communications, are not disturbed by tactless remarks bearing no signature. Anonymity will continue...
...remarks editorially that Mr. Coolidge would do well to step his conferences with Washington correspondents. It seems that some days ago the President took a stand on no less than ten public issues, but did not allow the correspondents to quote him except through that phrase: "A White House spokesman." The Herald fears that this form of anonymous government may soon degenerate into the President's sending up opinions like trial balloons, acknowledging these which are not punctured by the opposition, and disowning the rest...