Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Chamber of Commerce with a fervent plea for adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Before a House committee, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson made an able argument for the continuation of Lend-Lease. And Secretary of State Stettinius turned up in Moscow, where he chatted with Molotov and made the required visit to the ballet. Four days later he appeared at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas' summer home in the mountains above Rio, for a chat on his way to the Hemisphere conference at Mexico City...
...Chat. In Roanoke, Va., Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Martin Wilbourne, unexpectedly bound for overseas duty, hopped off his train, married the girl awaiting him at the station, hopped back, departed brideless. Elapsed time: 15 minutes...
...shadows of Harry Hopkins' first evening in Italy were falling on sad, eternal Rome when he drove to the somber Palazzo Chigi. There, in a dun-walled room once used by Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano, President Roosevelt's sour-faced emissary had a chat with Italy's pale Foreign Minister, gap-toothed Alcide De Gaspari...
...omen for democracy when South American dictators discuss it. On Christmas Eve Paraguay's untutored strong man, Higinio Morinigo, delivered a 1,200-word fireside chat on democracy. "Real democracy," he said, was government which "expresses its will within social order, mutual respect, public morale." Further, the dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina...
...night last week she had a long chat with two close friends. She was distressed, and she said so. The friends left at 3:30 a.m. Lupe whistled for her dogs, went to her bedroom. She undressed, stepped into blue silk pajamas, sat down on her huge bed to scribble a note. In her childish scrawl she wrote: "Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring in him with shame or killing...