Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election of Norris Holferd of California to the post of chairman, and of Franklin Williams of New York, currently a National Planning Committee member and attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to the post of vice-chairman. Observers say Williams' probable opponent will be Chat Patterson, present AVC legislative representative, who has strong support from FDR, Jr. In the ring for the chairmanship, apparently with Bolte's backing, is Richard Bolling of Kansas City, an official of Americans for Democratic Action. In addition, policy disputes will no doubt arise (in the corridors they are fast...
...reports of a two-hour conference between Secretary of State George Marshall and two of the 80th Congress' toughest characters. They were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges and New York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
Said a diplomat in Italy: "It is a little academic for Marshall and Molotov to chat about peace terms ending one war when they are really thinking about the most advantageous terms for waging another one-with or without guns...
...plump little man who favors stiff collars and ascot ties, he used to say of his pink, shiny face: "I look like Mr. Pickwick." He still meets Monday nights for a learned chat with Harvard's Society of Fellows, invites friends to his apartment for coffee and conversation. Most of them agree at least one-third with Gertrude Stein, who once wrote: "Only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell rang within me. . . . The three geniuses [are] Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Whitehead...
...unintentionally struck a blow at freedom, not for it. As they passed out of the Russian orbit, U.S. and British newsmen returning from the Moscow Conference began cabling "now it can be told" dispatches. One thing several wanted to tell about was what happened after the Stalin-Stassen chat...