Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...forecast of the November elections made last week. The speaker was none other than the arch-Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still the orthodox partisan when he broadcast a campaign speech in which he flayed Democrats and their tariff tactics...
Steering the interview deftly into quiet channels, Sir Percival soon had Mr. Ford saying: "I think that in England you make too much of your troubles. Take unemployment. There is a great deal of it in England. But your figures are apt to give a wrong impression...
This was more like an interview, reporters fired questions. Who in his opinion were the greatest U. S. artists? M. Matisse didn't know. What were his views on U. S. art? M. Matisse had none. Were there any signs of a return to classicism in France? M. Matisse declined to comment. Friends but not reporters know that in art Henri Matisse is a complete egocentric, that he has no interest in U. S. art, or Swiss art or British art, that he paints what he sees to the best of his ability and lets it go at that...
William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, which is now convening in Boston at the Hotel Bradford, in an interview recently declared that undergraduates of Harvard College should turn their attention to economic subjects and particularly to a study of the causes and remedies of unemployment which he believes is one of the vital problems facing America today. Green stated that he believed students would obtain a better and more complete perspective of unemployment as a whole if they were familiar with the philosophy of the organization that he heads...
Throughout the interview, Green discussed the demoralization of the textile industry, child labor legislation, business depression, the lack of organization of "white-collar" workers, and union racketeering in Chicago, and emphasized that the aim of the unions is cooperation--not domination in industry...