Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From conferences whose aim was to find a way out of the muddle left by the abolition of AAA, President Roosevelt took time out for two gracious acts. He dropped in unexpectedly to chat with the directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding...
...their hour's chat, the Dictator spoke of the effect produced on Ethiopians when invading Italians set up at Aduwa the first cinema projector the town had ever seen, and invited the whole town to see the show. "I am not sure that was a work of Civilization," sardonically remarked Mussolini. "The natives fled to the hills as if from the Devil. Perhaps they were right...
Pearson & Allen. Washington's chit-chat columnists, Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, who broadcast a Merry-Go-Round of the Air, invited radio listeners to send in straw votes. Their question: "Should President Roosevelt be re-elected?" Their answers: 70% "yes"; 30% "no." Women were 3-to-1 for Roosevelt; men 2-to-1. Some 90% of the voters explained their reasons. Of the Roosevelt voters, 38% declared they liked the man, did not agree with all his policies-a fact that partly explains the difference between the Pearson-Allen and the Digest returns. Of those opposed to Roosevelt...
...impressed her but hardly got under her skin. Back in the U. S., she and her husband set up a co-operative housekeeping venture in Manhattan with some other young intellectuals called themselves A Club. "Everybody"-from Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser-used to drop in for a chat...
...group was well received wherever it went. President Lebrun was kind enough to grant an audience to the visitors and chat with them for a while. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs planned the available time to the best advantage and other organizations, such as the Touring Club of France and the Automobile Club, co-operated to add to the enjoyment of the visit...