Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very many college men are now in each service. Take, for example, the diplomatic service. At the head, and in each capital of the world, are the Ambassadors and Ministers the official spokesmen of the nation in the respective countries to which they are accredited. Below them is a force of Diplomatic Secretaries who are charged with the function of performing the routine tasks of the particular mission at which they are serving, and, on occasion, of acting as Chief of Mission during the absence of their Ambassador or Minister. The secretaries are divided into four classes...
...creditable to Harvard when its distinguished spokesmen are obliged to misquote history to justify their position when they say 'In 1860 our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war over the Trent affair." In these words E. F. McSweeney attacks the telegram sent by President Lowell and a thousand other members of the University asking Senator Lodge of defeat the Mason Bill...