Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday fireside chat the Mayor addressed himself to a little boy named George, who had written in about a gambling place where his father generally lost his weekly paycheck. Said the Mayor: "George, I'm going to put a policeman in that store. You just keep me informed, and other little boys who see the family happiness destroyed because some thieving tinhorn is robbing his daddy of money on horse races or gambling also please let me know. I won't tell anybody that you told me the place, but I'll send the police there...
Human minds fuddled by wartime problems have become a new audience for cosy-talking Mrs. Know-it-alls. These ladies are airy irrepressibles who chat on a hundred different subjects, answer questions, take listeners on a heady gossip-go-round of meeting people, going places, doing things...
Remember April. First in a message to Congress, later in a fireside chat with the public, he reminded the world that in April he had laid down a seven-point program* for inflation control, that on only two of the seven points-higher taxes and control of farm prices-he had asked Congressional action...
...sold the phrase "United Nations" by President Roosevelt. The President had fixed on it in bed before breakfast, shouted it through the bathroom door. The two biggest guns of democracy are now on such good terms that they can "say anything to each other, however painful." But as they chat back & forth, face to face or on the trans-Atlantic telephone, it is always "Winston" and "Mr. President," never "Franklin...
...President opened his fireside chat by telling the story of Lieut. John J. Powers, who died at Midway leading a dive-bomber attack on a Japanese carrier. (Then & there, over the air Franklin Roosevelt conferred on Hero Powers the Congressional Medal of Honor.) The President closed his chat by giving a broad hint of where more Medals of Honor will...