Word: interview
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Methods. Not covertly were the investigations conducted. With willing cooperation from college authorities, the investigators quizzed undergraduates, teachers, athletic officials. They opened files, read countless letters from preparatory school stalwarts who wished to be paid for college competition. Only at Oglethorpe University, where permission to search records and interview students and professors was refused, and the University of Georgia, where one official failed to send promised data, were there obstructions...
According to Mr. Hamblin, after his interview on October 16 with the President he wrote the following letter: October...
This letter is in confirmation of my understanding of your instructions in regard to the Botanic Garden, as given in a personal interview this afternoon...
That the matchmaker rivals or out-tops princes and statesmen in importance was indicated when the Saturday Evening Post's Isaac Marcosson, "world's most famed" interviewer, chose him as prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
...thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might have some reason to go and interview the Priest and get absolution next morning." Instant were the repercussions of this story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa's Church, "the words were an insult to about half the people of Canada, who adhere...