Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department. For although the State Department is split over the proper course to be pursued, none of its officials wants to give Britain or France the impression that the U. S. is prepared to take the lead in checking Japan. Therefore, Franklin Roosevelt added to his fireside chat announcing an extra session of Congress (see col. 3). a sort of postscript on peace...
...Onetime Braintruster, Raymond Moley advanced the hypothesis that the sentiments in Franklin Roosevelt's Chicago speech had been supplied largely by William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Ambassador Bullitt did indeed confer with the President before the fireside chat. Then, before sailing for Europe, Ambassador Bullitt-who as a matter of fact indicated surprise when he read the "quarantine" passage in the President's Chicago speech after it had been mimeographed at the State Department-flatly contradicted Editor Moley's story to the press...
...column, My Day, Mrs. Roosevelt told of a family party at the White House to celebrate her birthday, wrote about "a gentleman coming in to do some work" who later "played dance music for us." Since Mrs. Roosevelt's birthday party took place the night before the fireside chat. Columnist Westbrook Pegler acidly inquired...
...accordion and the guitar . . .? Could it be Tommy Corcoran, White House Tommy, as they call him in Washington . . .? If this deduction be correct, it is proposed that next time after the gentleman who plays the piano has come in to do some work, the billing for the fireside chat be changed to read as follows: 'Thomas Corcoran will address his subjects on the state of the nation tonight through the courtesy of the broadcasting companies and the President of the United States...
...Hyde Park, where he went after his fireside chat, the President this week chose as administrator of the U. S. Housing Authority, to set in motion the $526,000,000 low-cost housing and slum clearance program, small, slender Nathan Straus, 48-year-old scion of Manhattan's great philanthropic and merchandising family, member of the New York City Housing Authority and longtime student of slum problems...