Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties would permit. In Washington he is not active socially but he likes to go for drink and chit-chat to the swank Army & Navy Club or Chevy Chase Country Club. Like Admiral Standley and many another naval officer he has a son, Lieut. William Harrington Leahy, in the ranks below...
...ever did succeed in making him think. His students felt for him afterwards the incommunicable affection they reserve for a great--I pick out the adjective, I use it deliberately--a great teacher . . . Well, there are still, no doubt, a number of pleasant gentlemen at Harvard who can chat about Pater's style and in the best English tradition invite their students to tea. I wonder how many composition teachers there are. Paul Driscoll...
...Boston and Stephen J. Donahue of New York, the Cardinal Secretary's gentleman-in-waiting, Enrico Galeazzo, and two Catholic New Dealers, Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank C. Walker, with their wives. The party was whisked over to Hyde Park for luncheon followed by a brief private chat between Cardinal and President. Two hours later, back in the special train, Cardinal Pacelli received newshawks, protected by Bishop Spellman from being badgered into saying anything more than: "I enjoyed my visit very much. It was a great opportunity to meet the President and his truly American family and to have...
Promptly at 8:30 p. m. Benson K. Pratt, GOPressagent, stepped to the microphone to say: "Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, an outstanding Republican leader and a member of the United States Senate, is here to conduct a 'fireside chat...
...discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither. Hastily they found a reason for not broadcasting the GOProgram: Columbia has a rule against broadcasting "electrically transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement of cancellation but their reception of the "Mystery Chat" continued. In their frenzy Columbia's executives had decided that it might be less expedient to suppress the broadcast than to run it. Finally Columbia's Manhattan office made...