Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Byrnes set too much store by the bullbat session. In Moscow last December he had a long, informal chat with Joe Stalin. Joe seemed to like Jimmy, and when Jimmy left he thought he and Joe saw eye-to-eye on two points Jimmy had made: 1) the Russians should go easy on Persia, and 2) a 25-year treaty guaranteeing the disarmament of Germany would be a good thing...
...Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon dropped into the White'House for a chat, came out beaming and declaring that Harry looked fine. The Duke of Windsor stopped in for a chat. He thought the President looked "in great shape." Ex-Kansas Governor, ex-War Secretary Harry Woodring, a deep-dyed Democrat, was so moved by the President's new vigor that he prophesied his re-election in 1948, along with a Democratic Congress...
...years of farming in Iowa's Warren County, squinty-eyed old Ed Russell had received many a pastoral call. But never had he seen a Methodist parson like pretty, plump Bobby-Soxer Ruth Greenwood. Last week, Bible in hand, she came from Pleasant Hill Church ready to chat with Ed, read some Scripture, and pray...
...Private Chats. On the first point of his mission, George Messersmith has succeeded extraordinarily well-helped not a little by Juan Perón's intense dislike of Messersmith's predecessor, hulking, excitable Spruille Braden. Just a few days after his arrival in Buenos Aires last May, Messersmith was informed by an influential Argentine that Perón would welcome a private chat. The meeting was held, and was followed by similar get-togethers. The two men took each other's measure, and talked through the whole range of U.S.-Argentine problems...
...suit and tangoed around (with a suitably dressed partner) in a tank containing 15 feet of water. The girl: ash blonde Gillian Webb*-the 20-year-old who, with two older colleagues, does all the BBC's television announcing, a job which ordinarily demands only an ability to chat at a battery of cameras...