Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet chat had President Hoover recently with his good and moneyed friend Eugene Meyer Jr. The weather was becoming warm. Mrs. Meyer would perhaps be hastening a trifle her departure to the Meyer country estate. This would leave the Meyer mansion in Washington free to serve as house and home for four days to President-elect Julio Prestes of Brazil who arrived in Washington last week with his gay and handsome son Fernando...
What is wrong with Princeton sport? To those ostrich-like souls who deny that anything is wrong, we recommend, first, a casual glance at our recent athletic history and, second, a casual chat with most Princeton undergraduates, athletes, or coaches. If he wants a real torrent of language, let him consult a few of that off-maligned group-the Alumni...
Work Done. Newsmen know that little is ever accomplished during their perennial Manhattan muster save chit-chat and jollification. Chief business done by the A. P.: the re-election of Publisher Frank Brett Noyes of the Washington Star to be president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only...
...Chit-Chat. In hallways and hotelrooms outside the meetings, an outstanding subject for chit-chat was a circulation fight last fortnight between the Philadelphia Record and the Curtis-Martin papers (Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer). An article by the Record had told the story thus...
...master. ". . . Here let us recall that in his memoirs, Fifty Years a Journalist, Melville E. Stone declared that 'the Associated Press is writing the real and enduring history of the world, and is not chronicling the trivial episodes, the scandal, and the chit-chat...