Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles F. Thompson, 18, who got forms for all members of his football team. Detroit opened five new recruiting centers. Enlistments of boys jumped 50% to 75% in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and other big cities. Most frequent reason given by the youngsters: Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat had won Mom's and Pop's consent...
...President had looked at America and found it good. When he made his report to the nation in a fireside chat this week, he was full of good spirits, of confidence in the future, of the pervading enthusiasm of a traveler who has seen a wondrous land...
...student shows improvement in the last reports, which are the most complicated, it is to his credit." But Grouser was, apparently, still not entirely convinced, so Professor Hubbard suggested a chat with Professor McNair to learn the history of the system...
President Roosevelt in his fireside chat grappled with the manpower problem but failed to pin it down. He told the American people bluntly that the present situation is intolerable and a few concrete steps were outlined. "We shall be compelled to stop workers from moving from one war job to another; to stop employers from stealing labor from each other; to use older men, and more women; and to stop the wastage of labor in all nonessential activities." But nowhere did the President explain who is to do the job, when it must be done, or where the authority will...
...Washington. The Department of Labor, the War Labor Board, and General Hershey's Selective Service Headquarters have been bickering ever since Pearl Harbor. Paul McNutt and his Manpower Commission sit idly on the sidelines, eager to go in as substitutes but lacking authority from the head coach. The fireside chat does not unravel this tangle. Still unanswered is the central question: Who is to decide when what workers go where...