Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxi." The boy rested on the cushioned seat of the taxi with Reporter Dreher on the floor. A half mile beyond the point of transfer from the farmer's Ford to the taxi, two G-men cars were parked. The reporter wished to avoid having an interview interrupted by Federal agents; hence the informal positions of the boy and the reporter. The reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs 128 lb. at 5 ft. 6. The boy was taken directly home, without the reporter stopping for photographs or to telephone his newspaper en route, which would have given...
After two days 200 newshawks flocked in for their first postdecision interview with Franklin Roosevelt. The country, badly confused, seemed eager to take its cue from him. But the President was not yet ready to play the prompter's part. To persistent questions, he smilingly retorted that the real spot news on NRA was not in Washington but out in the country, in mine and factory, in shop and office where the first effects of the Supreme Court's ruling were already evident (see p. 63). When someone asked specifically about General Johnson's White House visit...
...jestingly asked the assembled reporters if they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes an historic political speech. Its exact words might be missing but from...
...attitude. He forgets that Hearst has for fifteen years filled the American people with a pack of lies about Russia and Japan. He forgets that Hearst is for a navy second to none--whatever that may be. He forgets that only last winter Hearst sent his reporters to interview professors on contemporary social problems, and by means of "selective quotation" attacked them on charges of being communistic...
...laid down the Allied sceptre last week, Mr. Weber indulged in no prideful pointing. He never has. The most conspicuous thing about Mr. Weber and his company is secretiveness. He has never made a public speech, written a paper, submitted to an interview or posed for a photograph. His company has never joined either a trade association or a cartel or the NRA or a chamber of commerce. He had no bankers because he never needed them. The chemical industry is necessarily mysterious business but, with Allied's brilliant dictator, mystery was almost a fetish...