Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armistice Day pilgrimage to Mr. Wilson's home has taken place every year since 1921. On each occasion some man high in the councils of the Democratic Party and personally close to the ex-President has acted as spokesman for the pilgrims. In 1921 the honor fell to Hamilton Holt; in 1922 to Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador to Turkey under the Wilson regime. This year Mr. Wilson's trusted Secretary of the Treasury, Carter Glass, sometimes spoken of among politicians- more familiarly than charitably-as " pigeon face," led the rally around his old leader...
...German Government made overtures to the French and Belgian Governments for a conference to settle the means of bringing about a restoration of normal economic conditions in the Ruhr. M. Poincare, as Premier of France and spokesman for Belgium, rebuffed the German request by stating that all the Germans had to do was to cease passive resistance (which was reported to be still in existence) and to discuss with General Degoutte, Generalissimo of the Franco-Belgian occupational forces, any local difficulties...
Although arrangements are not yet entirely certain, it seems probable that the same delegate, the official spokesman for the party now in power, will be got to speak at the Union tonight or tomorrow night. It Fortune favors the University, undergraduates will have an invaluable opportunity of learning at first hand what cannot be gleaned from the papers about the present situation and the rights and wrongs of it. Furthermore, Mr. Guavara will undoubtedly lay before his audience the case for Philippine Independence. The agitation for such independence began at the time of annexation and has increased ever since...
...Hampshire Sentinel, New Haven Journal-Courier, New York Herald, New York Times, New York Tribune, New York World, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburg Gazette-Times, Portland Press-Herald, Portland Oregonian (A. M. edition), Providence Journal, Reading (Pa.) Eagle, Rocky Mountain News, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, San Francisco Journal, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Springfield Republican, Toronto Globe, Washington Post, Wisconsin State Journal, Youngstown Vindicator...
...mistaken conclusions in writing such matter as is to become public knowledge. As a rule it is also not permissible to quote the President directly. Information promulgated by correspondents as "from an authoritative source " may well be an indirect quotation of the President. On the other hand " a spokesman at the White House" who ordinarily gives out the official version of what happens at Cabinet meetings, is usually Secretary Hughes. In the first meeting with the President the correspondents had a surprise. Instead of being reticent Mr. Coolidge was frank and outspoken- full of humor. He spoke with self-confidence...