Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they knew better. Their only hope for trimming down the second most powerful Congressman was to enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...emphasis on welfare-state spending and other inflationary actions, would probably weaken international confidence in the pound.) To the rest of Europe's politicians and money managers, the fact that their nations had at last begun to move toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope. Glowed "the engineer of the West German miracle," rotund Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "Who will blame me for feeling deep personal satisfaction? After all, it was I who eight years ago in a world of destruction, disorder and disbelief called for convertibility. What did I get? Mockery and scorn...
Moment of Truth. De Gaulle's immense but simple ambition was to put France's economy "really and basically in order." Explaining his plans in a radio broadcast, he insisted that the only way France could hope to achieve long-term prosperity was on a foundation of vérité et sévèrité. The vérité was to be found in his abolition of scores of cushions, subsidies, favors and discriminations that have concealed the realities of the French economy even from the French themselves...
...vehicles for this sort of "scientific advertising," Supersalesman Culligan is making the most of NBC's "hotline" service for handling fast-breaking news. NBC's Stardust series will dot the broadcasting day with brief appearances by big show-business names-Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope, George Gobel. Analysis Stardust is a projected series that will put top newsmen among the other stars. The Image series (audio documentaries) will be an ambitious collection of documentaries starting with Image: Russia, a 1½-hour-a-night, month-long study of the Soviet Union, "authenticated" by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine...
...Soviet spy apparatus were snobs about money, names and culture. They were not impressed so much by the fact that Musician Morros had been Piatigorsky's first cello teacher as that he had once paid Ginger Rogers $75 a week, and that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had jostled backstage for a job at Paramount. Also, incredible as it may seem, the Russians were grateful because he had turned down a flesh peddler's offer of Leon Trotsky as a Paramount stage attraction...