Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...generous appreciation of his subordinates and superiors Dr. Derby has shown himself to be an ideal spokesman for the one supremely human and almost uniquely constructive element in the great war-machine--the Medical Corps...
...Department of Agriculture of Federal control as a means to bring down the price of food. The Commission secured the services of certain Socialist reformers in its investigation. The packers are making a last stand to preserve their private monopoly; and Senator Watson is their involuntary spokesman. But federal control of a private monopoly is not the usual definition of Bolshevism. Senator Watson balks at a name...
America is the accepted spokesman of world democracy, but a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. A doctrine which breaks down at home can hardly be propagated abroad. We have passed the day of the pious slave holder who became so deeply impressed with the plea for foreign missions that he sold one of his slaves to contribute liberally to the cause. If democracy cannot control lawlessness, then democracy is a failure...
...Princeton takes place tomorrow afternoon. The chairmen of the athletic committees or boards of control meet in New York to arrange the details of schedules for games, races, and meets for spring contests. Professor Corwin is chairman of Yale's Board of Athletic Control, Dean McClelahan will be spokesman for Princeton while Prof. R. B. Merriman will represent Harvard at this conference...
...leadership of the League of Nations and to literary pursuits. This attractive future for the next ex-President is expanded into fascinating detail, which locates the headquarters of the League of Nations in Constantinople where President Wilson, "now the idol of the liberal elements of Europe, will be the spokesman for a more liberal form of international democracy." Jealous Europe, it is also assumed, will be quite as eager to get him in this place of burden and responsibility, relieving it of tasks which it dreaded, as it has been to get the country to assume trusteeship for the Near...