Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
Most of the reasons and rationalizations given to Congress in the message were repeated in the President's subsequent fireside chat (see p. 10). But the nub of the message was simply: "Viewed from every angle today's purchasing power-the citizen's income of today-is not sufficient to drive the economic system at higher speed." Thus the program itself was founded on the old pump-priming theory with five billions in cash and credit to do the trick. By various bits of legal and financial legerdemain the net cost to the taxpayer was described hopefully...
Having with unwonted consideration first told Congress that there was a Depression and that he meant to cure it, a few hours later last week, the President told the country. Result was his twelfth "fireside chat," delivered from the diplomatic room...
...want to make good in Hollywood, here's a formula that's been found successful: Keep a desk full of candy and invite important executives in to chat during...
Said Castang after the chat: "I didn't do very well. I don't know those apes, you know, and it's hard even to speak to a man to whom you've never been introduced...