Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt, fighting a rear-guard action against inflation, last week ordered his aides to think up some new tactics. His price lieutenants jumped in with the usual set of one-page memos of their ideas, for him to cull and con. Soon, perhaps in the first fireside chat since February, the plans will be unfolded. The usual "informed sources" said that the tentative program, subject to change without notice, will include...
...done, the critics answered, burly Joe Ryan settled back into his pleasant routine: a rubdown at the New York Athletic Club, a swing along the docks to chat with his boys, the feel in his pocket of a horse-choking roll of green backs, careful attention to his fingernails and his bright ties-and above all vast quantities of food to nourish the Ryan paunch. Says contented Joe Ryan: "I like good food of all kinds, and I think my longshoremen want me to have...
...will take the points raised under advisement," he said, "and see you in a day or two." Then, with traditional Russian courtesy, he inquired about his visitor's health (ailing Joe Davies had brought to Russia a supply of dehydrated food and an intestinal specialist). The informal chat touched on Joe Davies' stop-off at Stalingrad to lay a wreath on the unknown Russian soldiers' grave. Remarked Stalin quickly: Did Mr. Davies see the graves of 96,000 Germans near...
Colonel Beigbeder talked long with Sumner Welles at the State Department, went with him for a chat with President Roosevelt. Guesses were that Colonel Beigbeder was as interested in U.S. foreign policy as in U.S. military might; that U.S. officials were as interested in what Beigbeder had to say about Spain and Spanish Morocco as they were in showing him the U.S. military plant...
Broadcaster Fiorello LaGuardia, who dearly loves a scoop, had a juicy one last week for listeners to his Italian language radio chat beamed to Italy. "I had a most interesting talk a few days ago concerning the war in Africa," purred the Mayor. Abruptly then he named the men with whom he said he had spoken-eight Italian generals and one air marshal. Properly dramatic, he saved the best name for last, throwing it in as an afterthought: hot-tempered General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, photogenic Black Shirt commander captured by the British in Libya two years ago this month...