Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the radio. A practitioner in two of these fields (he is news commentator for WQXR), Howe is critical of all three. Refreshingly fair and accurate (especially in comparison with muckraking books like George Seldes' Lords of the Press), Howe's book is an amusing, gossipy chat about the men and corporations that bring the news to America: their biases, their qualities, their wives. His opinions...
Over the weekend came the first clear encouragement to those who want him to fight, not chat: Willkie got mad. The smear by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee got his dander up. He smashed hard at the "high professions and low performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate...
...Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking of Rumanian Monitor No. 6 by the Russians; but another version called it a Yugoslav tanker sunk by a Rumanian mine. Proponents of the Nazi-Communist war pointed with delighted alarm to the gathering of 330,000 German troops...
...first full-hour show of the season last week, Kate Smith had a chat with Raymond J. Kelly, National Commander of the American Legion, who advised her that at their annual convention in Boston this week the Legionnaires would all be warbling God Bless America. Pleased, the chanteuse announced that her evening's rendition of the song would be dedicated to American Legionnaires everywhere. With Legionnaires singing it, Boy Scouts profiting from it. Democrats & Republicans using it as a theme song, God Bless America last week showed no signs of weakening after two years of pretty hard usage...
...candidate, quick, easy, confident, listened to him, respectful of their judgments on the earthy matters they knew about, direct in his plumbings of their expertness. To the leaders, to Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Illinois's Senatorial candidate Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, who stopped by for a chat, he appeared supremely confident that he knew what he was talking about...