Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the week, the American Legion's hard-driving National Commander Warren H. Atherton had presented Congress with a new "omnibus" veterans' bill, appeared twice before Congressional committees, hired a public-relations firm to publicize his bill, had a 45-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt at the White House...
After a ten-day bout with flu, complicated by two messages to Congress and a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt was warned by his doctor to "ease up." Shunning his office, the President...
When you can't eat, sleep, walk, talk, or perform any of the daily tasks which were so habitual in the past; when the mere sounding of a certain name makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when...
...Hush. Newsmen of the democratic nations, already chafing under censorship and official fumbling of news, had run into more of the same at Cairo. They were barred from news sources by barbed wire, got only prissy chit-chat in place of solid news. But with these restrictions they had no great quarrel. They knew that the safety of the conferees might hang on discreet silence...
...quick but thorough go at the Washington and New York papers (he reads Columnists Clapper and Lippmann regularly); breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and milk; then, propped in bed in his year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems to grow longer. Franklin Roosevelt likes people and loves an audience; Secretary "Pa" Watson still faces the problem of dragging away overtime visitors...