Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critics who are to be found in the European press are about as great a nuisance as the journalism of Europe knows. Each one sees a new danger every week. Each one has a new bright idea for building battleships or something every fortnight. Practically every one is the spokesman of some clique in the General Staff. Before the war, during the war, and after the war, they were most of them wrong most of the time. In all of literature there would be no more melancholy reading than the collected prophecies, warnings and advice of the journalistic military experts...
...interpretation upon it. The Democratic National Committee began at once to cast about for the weakest and most plausible spot through which to thrust an opening campaign wedge. They found it in the remarks of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, considered by political experts to be the spokesman of the Eastern Republicans, and certainly one of the three highest figures in the Republican party organization...
When he progresses farther, however, over the roads and mountains traversed by the great Khans Jenghis and Kublai, and by the mereliess Tamerlane-Temur, he becomes not so much the anti-revolutionist as the spokesman and interpreter of dying Mongolia. Himself a Pole, with just enough of the East in him to make him sympathetic with its mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries in a cold white light, he has drawn a picture that cannot...
...dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves...
...cost us one million dead." The New Statesman, another British weekly, energetically recommends "action" to the Government. It goes on to agree with the policy of leaving the Army on the Rhine, and while deploring Mr. Lloyd George's foreign policy, it says "he was the fully authorized spokesman of Great Britain, and we cannot repudiate responsibility for what he did. We must stay in Cologne. It is at least a pied a terre from which we can exercise pressure which could not be exercised from London...