Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a lowering scowl and a menacing jut of his heavy jaw, the Seņor President indicated to correspondents his intense displeasure at a statement issued, last week, from a secret hiding place, by the Bishop of San Luis Potosi, now spokesman for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico. Opening with a reference to the writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME...
...public office." "Here's one for you. This is warm." "There ain't going to be any report, because there ain't going to be any commission." "We have had in this country, in my opinion, about all we could stand of the 'spokesman' idea. . . ." The Democratic National Committee announced last week that 30,000 copies of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith, in book form, had been distributed in exchange for $125,000 in contributions to the $1,500,000 Democratic deficit. Smallest contribution that will get a book...
...assistants" for appointment as Secretary to the President. The main aspirants are George Akerson, Lawrence Richey, George Barr Baker. If the House agrees to the Senate's increase, Mr. Hoover will be able to care for all three-Akerson as alter ego; Baker as White House Spokesman; Richey as factfinder...
...confirmative despatch, succinct and unequivocal, declared: "A prelate generally known as the spokesman for Cardinal Gasparri [famed, beetling-browed Papal Secretary of State] frankly said today that five basic points have been substantially agreed upon" between representatives of Dictator Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius...
...favorable disposition of His Majesty is well known; but less than a year has passed since Editor Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Benito, roundly declared in II Popolo d'ltolia that no possibility of a Church-State agreement then existed (TIME, April 9). However the Papal spokesman said, last week, that the rapprochement to which he referred had been negotiated "since September last...