Word: interviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath was a Chicago Tribune cartoon of July 1919 showing white bathers at a beach shaking their fists at Negro bathers on the other side of a lifeline. The caption: "The color line has reached the North." Boxed at the right was a reprint of an interview Senator Medill McCormick was supposed to have given to the since defunct Chicago Journal on the race riots...
...During the race riots ... 38 citizens, 16 white ... 22 colored, were killed. ... I believe hundreds more would have been killed ... if William Hale Thompson had not sat in the Mayor's office. . . . The Chicago Tribune printed the above cartoon and Senator Medill McCormick gave out the accompanying interview which I believe created greater race hatred and increased the number of murders. ... It is my duty to recall to you now [the cartoon and interview] so that you may be warned before voting . . . for Ruth Hanna McCormick, the widow and adviser of Medill McCormick. Those who vote for a member...
...brother to the great idealists of this generation-Roosevelt and Wilson" were some of the things Editor William Allen White last week called his great and good friend President Hoover in the first issue of a new Republican campaign tabloid weekly.*;In the same issue Will Irwin began an interview with the Secretary of the Interior thus: "Ray Lyman Wilbur looked up at me across the tracks of a baby dinosaur. . . ." C. Last week President Hoover contemplated the New York stockmarket (see below), moved against unemployment...
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...