Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...first "Choosing-a-Career Conference" has as its stated purpose, the office of providing students, and more especially, recent graduates, the chance to hear leaders in every field expound on the qualifications necessary for their jobs. After the speeches, men who are interested may have a chat with the speakers...
...President wanted to get the whole thing straightened out soon as he could, and yesterday morning I had a little chat with Colonel Lindbergh about...
SLOW DEATH AT GENEVA-"Diplomat" -Coward-McCann ($2). Young Dennis Tyler has to look after the victim, do his work at the Conference, chat affably with many persons, keep it all out of the papers, while he finds a murderer. And well he does it, against a convincing background of international small talk and intrigue...
...thus irreverently, most Princeton men were sorry when in 1925 Dr. Howard McClenahan, physics professor and dean of the College since 1912, left to become secretary of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. Esteemed as an able teacher and wit, he was always ready to stop for a friendly chat on his cane-clumping jaunts about the campus. But he had another, official manner-head back, eyelids drooping, speech slow and precise - which made many an under graduate quake...