Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asked if I did not think I was as fit as Senator Curtis, I said I did not think he was of the calibre for the office and I hoped our party would have a candidate of higher qualifications. Out of this has gone forth this interview throughout the country under headlines to the effect that I think I would 'Make a Better Vice President...
Approachable, candid, he was a hero to many a cub reporter. He said: "I am a quasi-public servant. I have no more right to refuse an interview to a newspaperman than to a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss...
...interview between President Coolidge and his son John, has been scheduled for some months. But both have been too occupied. The agenda of the interview is: What shall John Coolidge, 21, do with himself after being graduated by Amherst this month? John Coolidge discussed the matter last week with a newsgatherer. One thing was certain he said. He was not thinking of entering the Harvard Law School. He would go into Business somewhere. But first, he said, he wanted to talk with his father. . . . Florence Trumbull, first daughter of Connecticut, was asked again last week, if she is engaged...
Chair Talk. To the editors of Liberty went a letter (published last week) from Senator Carter Glass, 70, of Virginia. It read: "There has been left on my desk a copy of Liberty, dated April 28, containing what purports to be an interview with me by Sidney Sutherland on the subject of the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. I desire to warn you that the purported interview, almost from the beginning to the end of it, is inaccurate and largely fictitious. ... I have usually managed to think and talk as a gentleman should...
...This young man came into my sick bedroom at the Raleigh Hotel unannounced and sought to interview me on the subject of the Constitutional Amendments which he has made the basis of his article. I positively declined to talk to him for publication referring him to carefully prepared articles by me which completely reflected my views. Upon his insistence and purely for his own information, I consented to explain exactly why, in my opinion, there was no analogy between alleged violations of the suffrage amendments in the South and the actual violation of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Prohibition...