Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like it or not, Reuther finally had to go along. Reuther could only hope that Ford would find a way to take him off the hook. This week, as the paralysis of Ford's River Rouge complex threatened to make thousands of other Ford workers idle, Reuther suggested, and Ford agreed, to resume negotiations...
Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's stalwart Socialist mayor, said: "Of course it's a good thing. I'm very happy. At last the Russians have climbed down. Now I hope they'll disappear from our midst." But everyone realized that the battle for the city would continue. East Berlin's Communist Party called for conferences to end the split in the city government. To this, Ernst Reuter retorted: "Work with those people-never...
Ernest Bevin spoke the hope of millions of people who, having feared last year that the Berlin crisis might mean imminent war, now believed that the end of the Berlin blockade was at least the beginning of peace. In many quarters, the notion grew that the Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom...
...virtually every major comedian feels robbed. Says Bob Hope: "When you see Berle, you're seeing the best things of anybody who has ever been on Broadway ... I want to get into television before he uses up all my material." Jack Benny is smarting over what he considers the theft of a hillbilly sketch, which Milton claims to have used first. Says Fred Allen: "He's done everybody's act. He's a parrot with skin on." Eddie Cantor is rankled because, he says, Milton recently used a sketch written for Cantor...
...detractors. His early start as an entertainer has given him a unique combination of talents: he has an old trouper's know-how and a newcomer's vigor. To a grueling weekly job, he brings a boundless appetite for work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist and a helter-skelter clown, Berle can sing, dance, juggle act, do card tricks, imitations and acrobatics, ride a unicycle...