Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan newshawk who went to interview him when Secretary Perkins appointed him mediator of Toledo's Electric Auto-lite Co. strike two years ago, Charlie Taft inquired: "What is there about an Ohio lawyer to interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days...
Cried Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden after his Landon interview: "He looks vigorous...
...that's very mean of you! ..." Knox supporters looking gloomily about their camp in Hotel Cleveland's ballroom after Landon's nomination and saying "Well, this is the 8-ball room, all right. . . ." John Hamilton sitting on a hotel breakfast table, white napery included, to interview the press. . . . The orchestra in Hotel Hollenden's cocktail room playing Happy Days Are Here Again at the instigation of a newshawk and none of the roomful of Republicans recognizing the tune...
...first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years they perfectly complemented each other. UP's President Howard might be in London getting the historic 1916 "knockout" interview from David Lloyd George, or in Brest getting the equally historic false Armistice report from Admiral Wilson. UP's Vice President & General Manager Hawkins kept his two big, reliable feet on the ground at headquarters in Manhattan, saw that all the bases were scrupulously and soundly tagged...
...Interviewing himself in "Shop Talk At Thirty," Marlen Pew gave his own ideas on what a newspaper should be: "Publish more news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well...