Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditures for social service education. Opposition of the fire-eating Right parties is constant, but in Daladiers own party a split is brewing with followers of Edouard Herriot, anxious to pay France's defaulted debt to the U. S. at once. Daladier and disciples are for nonpayment. As spokesman for the Right, Former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin popped up in the Chamber of Deputies last week and asked a number of questions that the world at large dearly wished to hear answered...
...beyond Mr. Adams does not go. Should it not be possible for one who has, in Mr. Adams' happy phrase, "lived with the writings of Henry Adams" to give some suggestion of Adams' influence upon his times, of his place in an era? John Adams was the fearless spokesman of his period, John Quincy Adams was the barker of the side show of the 1820's, '30's, and '40's. So much is a matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which they lived, and they directed in some...
...just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More telegrams hit Washington, bringing the total to some 10,000, divided about equally for & against. Ostensibly the spokesman of 3,500 Detroit policemen whose insurance plan funds were tied up. Commissioner Watkins, a stockholder in the closed banks, voiced the feelings of all stockholders. If the old banks are liquidated they will lose their investment, might be called upon for double liability. Meantime Roman Catholic Bishop Gallagher grumbled...
Inside, tactful B. B. C. officials put Mr. Matsuoka in a broadcasting studio as far removed as possible from that occupied by China's spokesman of the evening. Ambassador Quo Taichi. Later, enclosed by a solid phalanx of Scotland Yard detectives, Japan's Matsuoka got safely away. "Because I am a Japanese," said he to U. S. correspondents, "I can sympathize deeply with the California earthquake sufferers. . . . Your economic crisis is largely psychological rather than material. I believe you will have a quick recovery...
Harding tried it for a little while, then insisted that questions be submitted in advance, in writing. Coolidge refused ever to be quoted, created the "White House Spokesman." He too invited written questions, which he usually ignored. Hoover won applause at the outset by abolishing the "spokesman." His very first sentence to assembled newsmen-"It seems that the whole Press of the United States has given me the honor of a call this morning"-was considered momentous because it was the first direct quotation from a President in years. But like his predecessors, President Hoover soon decreed that questions must...