Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round, the lively syndicated column of Washington tips and chitchat produced by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, there appeared one day last week the following item: ''Mrs. Farley, who is always complaining that Jim would rather make speeches than make enough money to buy her a car, grouses privately against the Roosevelts. She thinks the President has not properly recognized her husband's ability...
...Louis no local woman has been the subject of more newspaper columns or more shocked social chitchat than lively, red-haired Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, whose father was a Baptist minister and whose brother is a Judge of Missouri's Supreme Court. Until three years ago few St. Louisans knew much more about Mrs. Muench than that she lived comfortably in fashionable Westminster Place with her respected physician-husband and that she once operated a fashionable midtown dress shop that catered to society trade...
That the Davieses may leave Moscow long before their cream is gone was last week prime Washington chitchat. No secret is it that that fragile Anglophile, Robert Worth Bingham, who failed to inform the State Department of the Simpson Crisis until it exploded in Commons, has impressed his superiors as something less than an ideal Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Should he retire soon as expected, what more natural than that the able husband of one of the nation's richest women should hope to succeed to his glittering job? Attesting their eligibility, Joe Davies & wife have...
Coalition. Publisher Paul Block had been pushing it for months. It had bobbed up repeatedly in political chitchat. But the proposal for a 1936 coalition ticket did not really boom until the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune plumped for it in a front-page editorial last week. Democrats actually suggested for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination were Virginia's Senator Byrd, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Newton D. Baker, Lewis W. Douglas. "The liquidation of the New Deal," cried the Herald Tribune, "calls for a permanent alliance of all who would keep America American...
...after Alf Landon had become the only Republican Governor in the land to be re-elected in that year's Roosevelt landslide. Throughout the winter and spring of 1935 the Landon (Continued on p. 18) candidacy was kept publicly alive only by professional chitchat and an occasional Sunday feature in the newspapers. Meantime a group of Landon neighbors had begun to take the subject seriously in hand...