Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only important social event of a week in which the President's main relaxation from wrestling with a business decline consisted of making a fireside chat to encourage the unemployment census, preparing a message to what may turn out to be a balky Congress, was the National Press Club's annual dinner at which he was the guest of honor. Earlier in the week, the President was made an honorary member of the American Press Society (see p. 49), had been asked to resign by the Newspaper Guild, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is a member. High point...
...fireside chat last month, the President called for the "early enactment" of laws to 1) control crop surpluses, 2) regulate wages and hours in industry, 3) reorganize the executive branch of the Government, 4) permit regional planning for better use of national resources, 5) modernize anti-trust legislation. In his message this week, he again enumerated the first four, omitted the last...
This speech won Alf Landon little credit for originality or perspicacity. First reply to it-like the first reply to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat the week before -came from Columnist Hugh Johnson on his conveniently-timed Bromo Quinine program. Not satisfied with disparaging Alf Landon's argument, he mocked Alf Landon's pronunciation by repeating a Landon slip: "attackted." In Manhattan next day, Herbert Hoover said tersely "It was a good speech" but failed to send Alf Landon congratulations...
...onetime aide, Hugh Johnson, who last month started a series of 15-minute broadcasts four times a week for Grove's Bromo Quinine, in addition to his daily Scripps-Howard column in which he has become one of the New Deal's sharpest critics. During the "fireside chat" Hugh Johnson took notes on what the President said. Three minutes after the chat was over, on the air at his usual time, he undertook to rebut some of his former chief's points with a promptness unprecedented for the radio. Speaking extemporaneously from his notes, he applauded...
...fireside chat the President approvingly quoted "one of the country's leading economists":*'"The continuance of business recovery in the United States depends far more upon business policies, business pricing policies, than it does on anything that may be done, or not done, in Washington...