Word: walters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After picking Brussels as the new organization's permanent site, the congress adopted a manifesto setting forth its policies, and purposes. A committee under the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther drafted a text which managed to please both the T.U.C. and A.F.L. The slogans adopted...
...Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians ran the show and made the decisions. The real boss of the puppet government was Grotewohl's "deputy," ruthless veteran Communist Walter Ulbricht...
Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in the same class [as Pearson]. Pegler is not performing a service now, though I suppose in the early days of his union muckraking...
...guard"-Bruno Walter, 73, Wilhelm Furtwangler, 63, Leopold Stokowski, 67-struck Boston trustees as a bit too old for the job. Another choice, says Cabot, "was to take a big gamble and pick a genius out of the pot. But we didn't see a genius among the younger...
...Walter Hampden, as a monsignor who aids Miss George in her fight against the bishop, plays his entire role while seated. He can express himself only through his voice and facial expressions, and although he sometimes gives the impression of overacting, his sharp cynicism enriches the play with a subtle humor...