Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsequently voiced to the Vatican his claims-eminently just as they were-to be Philadelphia's first Cardinal, he was given his red hat in 1921, three months before the present Pope was raised to the purple. As a scholar with whom Pius XI enjoyed many a long chat in later years, as a doughty fighter for the Church whose solid accomplishments spoke for themselves, Cardinal Dougherty hardly needed to point out that he was the man to represent the Pope at the Manila Congress...
...speaker grinned. He was the retiring Governor of Kansas, Alfred Mossman Landon, and all the newshawks in the executive office lobby of the White House grinned with him. After a call, by Presidential invitation, which had been prolonged into an hour's chat, Alf Landon had just emerged, and for one day Franklin Roosevelt had the curious experience of being thrown into the shade by his political rival of 1936. Alf Landon gave Washington newshawks the impression not only of being a good loser but of being a fine fellow. Publicly and privately those who had been far from...
...half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually he frequently attended big fights, once had Sport Editor Danny Parker bring colored Fisticuffer Joe Louis around for a chat...
Political friends, political enemies, political bystanders had been waiting four weeks for him to give them their cues for his second term. When the funeral was over Vice President Garner took him aside for a long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having...
While the refueling went on, the President had three hours of fishless fishing in a whale boat. Then the swift voyage southward was resumed and the newshawks riding in the Indianapolis' wake racked their brains and filled the ether with radioed chit-chat about the President's initiation by Neptune's Court when crossing the Equator...