Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bennett, arrived on the Washington scene in 1827. As special correspondent for the New York Enquirer, he quizzed administrative leaders, exposed corruption, and went to capital balls. Because of his partisanship to Andrew Jackson, he was fed the first official "leaks." He also became the first professional newsman to interview a President. "I went up to His Excellency," wrote Bennett after an audience with Martin Van Buren in 1839. "He held out his hand. It was soft and oily...
...procurement of the B70 Mach 3 bomber, and a big military space program -"control of space may well mean control of the globe in a future war." Power was seconded on the space argument by Major General John B. Medaris, chief of the Army Ordnance Missile Command. In an interview with Missiles and Rockets, on the eve of his retirement, Medaris blasted as "utter nonsense" the Administration's dividing the space program into civilian and military spheres...
...quick knee bend in the direction of the Africans. Britain, he said, would not remove its "protection" until all the people had a chance to say whether they wanted federation or not. Sir Roy Welensky was visibly disgruntled. But during his entire stay in Southern Rhodesia, Macmillan did not interview a single African leader...
...been turned into a sort of employment agency to help ex-staffers get jobs. On one side of the newsroom a bulletin board listed some 200 job offers in Cleveland industry, but few newspaper openings. Out-of-town papers, e.g., the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, sent personnel representatives to interview ex-News reporters, many of whom discovered that they were considered too old to pick up good newspaper jobs. Said one ex-Newswoman: "I feel like a corpse who can hear, and is lying listening to everybody say how good you were...
...illiterate and sadly in need of more schools, as well as of citizens who care. Would Dona Eladia tell the people how she does it? "To talk about oneself is naughty as well as unpedagogical," said she. Then she went on TV, and in a 15-minute interview with Colombia's school-building boss, did more for the cause than a dozen government proclamations...