Word: interview
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his arrest and release on $500 bail Mr. Mencken granted an interview to the CRIMSON in which he outlined the issues at stake. "This Chase," said Mr. Mencken, "has had the publishers and booksellers of this vicinity right where he wanted them for years. When that unfortunate fellow, Felix, got into his net he suffered to a blow aimed...
Grants Crimson Interview...
...Houghton was summoned from London to the White House (TIME, March 29) to give the President what is sometimes called "the low down" on Europe. Senator Harrison found no fault with that. He called the move "all right . . . well, proper and good." What caused the Senator anguish was an interview which Mr. Houghton gave to the press, in accepted White House fashion. That is, he spoke through a "spokesman," a mythical third person whom the President invokes as his mouthpiece, in order that what the "spokesman" says may be contradicted next day, if necessary...
...Gloomy Gus." Mr. Houghton's "spokesman" interview roused the Senator from Mississippi to fury because Mr. Houghton allegedly said a great many desperately important things, if they are true, which the Senator felt the Administration should either stand behind or keep secret. Cried Senator Harrison: "There is no one who does harm and injury that can be condemned more than the assassin who conceals himself behind some bush and fires unnoticed the shot into the back of the passing victim...
What Did He Say? The Senator read into the Record a version of the Houghton interview with the press which had not been declared erroneous by the Administration, late in the week. Indeed, Senator Moses of New Hampshire (Republican) declared, apparently referring to the version in question, "I know, or at any rate firmly believe, that what Mr. Houghton has said publicly describes truthfully the situation in Europe...