Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President at the door of his gloomy mansion across from Lincoln Park. After a chat in the archiepiscopal throne room, he and the Cardinal sat down to a private snack of fried chicken...
...opposite pole from timid Freshmen are scornful upperclassmen who are "too busy" for a chat, or who refuse to go through "all that red tape." This is nonsense, or at least an exaggeration. Deans are busy men with little time for idle gossip or banter, but they are certainly far from aloof. Rumor to the contrary, a puzzled or worried student can still obtain an appointment quite as readily and quickly at University Hall as he could with any active business or professional man. Few persons would choose to sit in their rooms and worry about an exam when adequate...
...director of educational service at Columbia s Teachers College. In one year he skyrocketed the college's space in the metropolitan press from 400 to 5000 column inches, made it the best publicized educational institution (without a football team) in the world. He dislikes handouts prefers to chat with reporters, casually whet their curiosity so that they investigate tor themselves. For several years his activities livened conventions of the National Education Association. In 1935 he set the stage in Atlantic City for the sensational excoriation of Publisher William Randolph Hearst by Historian Charles A. Beard which gained...
Before the strike was five days old the new Silk & Rayon Manufacturers Association, at the start representing some 60 manufacturers employing 10,000 workers and "increasing daily," sat down in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, invited Mr. Hillman to come in for a chat. What went on inside neither Labor's Hillman nor the Association's Attorney & Organizer David Cole would say, but the conference was followed by another next day. And from this session, which lasted until 2 a. m., Mr. Hillman emerged with a smile on his face and a contract in his pocket. First step...
...high-flown plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Senator McCarran was followed on the floor by Vermont's Austin and then by Illinois' Lewis who attacked the Bill. While Lewis spoke, Vice President Garner and Leader Barkley were conducting a, tour of the Chamber, stopping to chat with colleagues who wanted to amend the Bill or make long comments on it. Senator Lewis ended his speech with a challenge to the Bill's sponsor. When McCarran rose to reply, the Vice President, by this time back at his seat, cut him short by snapping...