This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

Warner felt that Berle was not strong enough as a lead to carry a film and that people would not pay to see the man they could see on television for free.

However Jack Warner was pressured into using Berle, even replacing Danny Kaye with him.

Milton Berle ( born Milton Berlinger, July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002 ) was an American comedian and actor.

He chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16.

In Milton Berle: An Autobiography, he explained, " I was scared shitless, even when he went on to tell me that Pauline would save my life.

The newsboy role often claimed by Berle in Tillie was unquestionably played by resident Keystone child actor Gordon Griffith.

Berle also co-wrote the score for this film, which was released by Educational Pictures.

In 1934 – 36, Berle was heard regularly on The Rudy Vallee Hour, and he got much publicity as a regular on The Gillette Original Community Sing, a Sunday night comedy-variety program broadcast on CBS from September 6, 1936 to August 29, 1937.

His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen, and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.

Berle asked NBC to switch from live broadcasts to filmed shows, to make possible future reruns and residuals, and he was not happy when NBC showed little interest.

By the time the again-renamed Milton Berle Show finished its only full season, Berle was already becoming history — though his final season was host to two of Elvis Presley's earliest television appearances, April 3 and June 5, 1956 .< ref >

It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Milton Berle ( many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco – see Texaco Star Theatre, which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme: " We're the men of Texaco, We work from Maine to Mexico ...").

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's devotional program Life Is Worth Living went up against Milton Berle in many cities, and was the first show to compete successfully in the ratings against " Mr. Television ".

On April 3, while still recuperating in Jackson, Perkins would see Presley perform " Blue Suede Shoes " on his first Milton Berle Show appearance, which was his third performance of the song on national television.

Sun Valley was featured ( and promoted ) in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle, and bandleader Glenn Miller.

Sullivan's reaction to Presley's performance on the Milton Berle Show was, " I don't know why everybody picked on Presley, I thought the whole show was dirty and vulgar.

After recording a huge amount of material at the studio, their manager at the time, Marshall Berle ( the nephew of Milton Berle ), offered the material to Mercury Records.

The Cowardly Lion ( voiced by Milton Berle ) puts on his best brave act when he tells Dorothy and the others he will slay the elephants, saying he will " snap off their tusks and use them for toothpicks ", but, like the Tin Man, he is too afraid after hearing the elephants are magical, and he suggests they go to find Glinda ( voiced by Rise Stevens ), the Good Witch of the North.

* 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, " Hound Dog ", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

* June 5 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, " Hound Dog ", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

* June 5 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, " Hound Dog ", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

While Berle shared Glass ’ s hope that the new law ’ s deposit insurance provisions would force all banks into the Federal Reserve System, he correctly feared that future Congresses would remove this requirement.

But part of the problem was Berle himself: with competition crowding him more and more as the years went on, as more television performers and creators found their camera legs, and brought new or at least more polished ideas to the air, Berle tried refining his camera persona and evolving from the freewheeling, manic style he cultivated so successfully in the Texaco years.

In 1967, Berle and Means issued a revised edition of their work, in which the preface added a new dimension.

Few American TV comedians consistently used drag as a comedy device, among them Milton Berle, Flip Wilson and Martin Lawrence, although drag characters have occasionally been popular on sketch TV shows like In Living Color ( with Jim Carrey's grotesque female bodybuilder ) and Saturday Night Live ( with the Gap Girls, among others ).

Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80 % share of the recorded viewing audience.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

The other Warner brother, Jack, began his hatred of television with problems with Milton Berle being hired by the studio to make an unsuccessful film Always Leave Them Laughing during the peak of his television popularity.

* Fozzie's Muppet Scrapbook-Hosted by Fozzie in the attic as he looks through a scrapbook of his material from the show, with guest stars Raquel Welch, Beverly Sills, and Milton Berle.

However, Berle's claims to have appeared in many of these films, particularly the 1914 Chaplin Keystone comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance, are hotly disputed by some, who cite the lack of supporting evidence that Berle even visited the West Coast until much later.

Kiss and Make Up, on CBS in 1946, featured the problems of contestants decided by a jury from the studio audience with Berle as the judge.

Scripted by Hal Block and Martin Ragaway, The Milton Berle Show brought Berle together with Arnold Stang, later a familiar face as Berle's TV sidekick.

Caricature of Milton Berle by Sam Berman from 1947 NBC promotional book

The comedy cards were discovered by up-and-coming professional comedian Milton Berle, who encouraged Youngman and formed a close working friendship with him.

On September 9, 1956, Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show ( after earlier appearances on shows hosted by the Dorsey Brothers, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen ) even though Sullivan had previously vowed never to allow Presley on the show.

Many of the show's plots were inspired by Reiner's experiences as a writer for Your Show of Shows, but though he based the character of Rob Petrie on himself, Rob's egocentric boss Alan Brady is less Sid Caesar ( host of Your Show of Shows ) than a combination of the more abrasive Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner himself.

* guest spots on every major television show of the 1950s and 1960s, including those hosted by Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop, Art Linkletter, and Jimmy Dean.

Adolf A. Berle, like Moley a member of Roosevelt ’ s First New Deal Brain Trust, was “ disappointed ” by the 1933 Banking Act.

As described above, Adolf Berle, the 1933 Roosevelt Brain Trust ’ s leading authority on banking law, was “ disappointed ” by the 1933 Banking Act.

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.

In academic literature, the phenomenon of regulatory competition reducing standards overall was argued for by AA Berle and GC Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property ( 1932 ) while the concept received formal recognition by the US Supreme Court in a decision of Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case Ligget Co. v. Lee ( 288 U. S. 517, 558 – 559 ).