Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Jodok Kohler, the G. O. P.'s gubernatorial nominee in Wisconsin, sped to Washington to see Nominee Hoover. What he said about Mrs. Willebrandt was not revealed. Newsgatherers plagued Dr. Hubert Work, the G. 0. P.'s chief spokesman. This colloquy ensued...
...Another spokesman is Mrs. Caroline O'Day, a vigorous, socially smart lady from Rye, N. Y., who has long been active in the New York Democracy and now is acting state chairman. Leaving Oklahoma City, she stepped to the observation car railing and explained: "Mrs. Smith is so modest that she doesn't like to make speeches. ... She hopes to see you all again when, we all hope, she will be the First Lady of the Land...
Deep, no doubt, was the soul probing, last week, of Fascists, who are pious Roman Catholics. Daily, Signer Mussolini demands of the whole Italian Nation that it "arrive quickly" at his set goals. Yet last week the Papacy's official spokesman not only contradicted Il Duce's orders but clearly designated him by implication as "profane"−for Benito Mussolini travels about Italy chiefly and by preference at the wheel of his own low, rakish bellowing speed...
...aimed at by an individual or a political organization can justify the secret or open employment of corrupt or otherwise dishonorable means. The spokesman of a party has the duty to tell the whole truth, and is justified in urging conclusions which his conscience approves, however distasteful or harmful they may be to the opposition. He proves himself unworthy if he knowingly accepts advantage from falsehood, even though not uttered or inspired by himself...
Economy (after flaying the Republicans for their failure to reorganize the Governmental machinery as in 1921 they promised): "The administration spokesman answers only: 'We have given an economical administration,' and that has been repeated so often that some people begin to believe it without the slightest proof. I assert that there is no proof...