Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunster House Bookshop case of 1930, for example, an agent of the Watch and Ward Society, posing as a customer, ordered and paid for a copy of the proscribed Lady Chatterly's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence. The proprietor was subsequently arrested and fined in a Cambridge District court; a higher court later refused to review the case, stating it was obvious the proprietor knew he was purveying "obscene" literature...
Career: He was a livestock farmer at Whitney in 1923-29, county agent for the University of Idaho extension service in Franklin County, Idaho in 1929-30, economist and marketing specialist for the university's extension service in 1930-38, executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington in 1939-44. As the council's chief operating officer, he was the agent and helper of thousands of farmers in 4,600 cooperatives (group buying and selling associations) which did an annual business of $1.3 billion. He started active church work in 1921 when he spent...
...million new 30-inch pipeline to the Mediterranean that promises to more than triple the output of Iraq's oil. The assembled guests watched a movie of the pipeline's construction, and applauded vigorously at the progress it augured. "You can be bloody sure," an I.P.C. press-agent confided to a newsman, "that we're not going to make the same mistakes Anglo-Iranian made in Persia...
Born. To Judy Garland, 30, song & dance star of Hollywood and Broadway, and Sid Luft, 36, Hollywood agent: their first child, a girl; by Caesarean section; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lorna. Weight...
...letter, Mrs. Beaumont asked that Herbert Philbrick, former undercover agent for the F.B.I., appear before a federal grand jury to give testimony of communist activity in Massachusetts' colleges...