Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After putting his foot in his mouth while speaking to the press during the Washington Disarmament Conference, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, to save diplomatic embarrassment, ordered that correspondents must put their questions to him in writing. Calvin Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also...
...high, thereby precipitated a world-wide break in commodity prices, the first signal of Depression II. Last February Professor Roosevelt again delivered himself on commodities, this time documenting his remark with a dozen charts which he didactically explained with a long wooden pointer. Last week "a White House Spokesman" (see p. 13) had some thoughts to express not only on commodities but on the entire economic condition of the U. S. From Hyde Park the "spokesman" delivered himself to the following effect...
...lesson, continued the "spokesman," is the same as in Europe: if people stopped calling names and rattling industrial swords, the result would be peace instead of war between Government and industry, between industry and labor...
...more concrete side of the current business picture, it appeared to the "spokesman" that the nation's shelves of merchandise were far more empty than a year ago, that the consumer demand of the public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...
...House of Lords, Labor's Spokesman Lord Snell of Plumstead sounded the same challenge: "Conferences should become the habit. We should include Germany and Russia-all countries willing to work for Peace...