Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret since early last winter concerning the new Mexican land and petroleum laws. Most of the documents released last week do not lend themselves to pertinent summary. The significant fact is that both governments appear to consider the subject closed, and the U.S. Administration has intimated throught "spokesmen" that it considers Mexico to have given sufficient assurances that the new laws are not "retroactive and confiscatory," as the U.S. at first protested that they were. It now remains to be seen whether U.S. property owners in Mexico will be leniently or harshly treated within the limit of the existing statutes...
...Certain "spokesmen" aboard the Sphynx "quoted" General Sarrail as follows: "I had the situation well in hand in Syria. . . . Then we were attacked at Damascus by rebels . . . and as I could not surrender the town there had to be fighting in the streets. . . . The British consul very nearly provoked a panic when I told him that I must bombard the Moslem quarters of the town. . . . The romantic versions of the affair in the English press indicate that somebody wanted to give the public its money's worth. . . . The French Government has always received full reports from me, except during...
...here a genuine issue as to policy. Although the court is the direct creation of the league and depends upon the league budget for its support, it may be that it is so far dissociated from its organization that adhering to the protocol creating the court, as the administration spokesmen have asserted, will involve no other commitments to the league. Yet the fact that so many professional and non-professional advocates of the league are so ardently enthusiastic for our "joining" the World Court, of whose real functions some of them appear to have only vague information, may afford some...
...biggest court martial in U. S. military history," exclaimed the effusive spokesmen of quantity and magnitude last week with reference to the trial of Colonel William Mitchell about to begin. There was much in what they said. The court martial of Benedict Arnold in 1779-80, which resulted in a mild reprimand from General Washington, was not so sensational as the treason which followed it. The trial of Aaron Burr for treason was perhaps of equal national interest, but it was not a military trial but a trial before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond. The nearest parallel...
...accept the full burden of that which formerly fell upon them only in part--of preparing men to live. To accomplish this readjustment at Harvard the best thought of the best minds, must be devoted to a careful study of the problem. If the students, through their official spokesmen, the Student Council, can aid by presenting their point of view, that body should meet the issue by appointing a capable group of undergraduates to study the problem and make definite suggestions...