Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents thus far permitted to interview General Jose Miaja, valiant "Defender of Madrid," have mostly been given whispered warnings by his secretary: "Please do not mention his family! Only twice in my life have I seen the General weep-he is most courageous-but please not to mention his family. Hostages, you know! They have been held since the beginning of the war in Morocco, and the General knows that at any moment they may be shot...
...Decembrist Revolt numbered many of his good friends, all of whom seemed to have subversive Pushkin poems among their papers. Though not directly implicated in the conspiracy, Pushkin was again under suspicion. He was allowed to lay his case before the Tsar. After an hour-long interview Pushkin emerged, seething with loyalty. He was free to go anywhere in Russia, except St. Petersburg...
President Beatley of Simmons College in an interview with the Boston Transscript proposed solving the teachers oath law difficulty by allowing it to become a dead letter to be quietly repealed at some time in the distant future. Unlike other opponents of oath legislation, he does not realize that such a law can never become a "dead letter". As long as it remains on the statute books of the Commonwealth it must be, if not an outright threat, at least an unwarranted reflection upon the teaching profession...
...certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...
...made particularly to compromise me before public opinion in the United States."Truth in Moscow-An Ambassador watching the Moscow trial arose to say of the confessing prisoners, "If these men are not speaking the truth, then I have never heard it!" Walter Duranty, who obtained the second interview ever given to a correspondent by Joseph Stalin, cabled from Moscow last week that he believed the confessions, notably those of his close personal friends of many years, Radek and Romm, adding that he believed the unfortunate Radek will be shot and that the chances of Romm are not much better...