Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brotherhood of Teamsters, is a tough, resilient man who can slide on his face in a stable and come out smelling like honeysuckle. Three weeks ago he defied what looked like an open-and-shut case against him to win acquittal on charges that he tried to plant an agent on the staff of the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). Last week he turned up cockily for a San Francisco meeting of the Teamsters' constitution revision committee, there unloaded some of the grand schemes that he hopes will shape the future glory...
...flung Teamster brass summoned for the show, Jimmy Hoffa looked like more of a boss than ever because he had just beaten federal charges that he had tried to plant an agent on the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). As Reformer Hoffa, he took the rostrum to propose: 1) an organizing drive to gain 600,000 Teamster members, 2) transfer of some Beck-abused powers from the president to the union's executive board, 3) a demand that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. revoke its policy of censuring union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment...
...rousing reception from most of his fellow segregationists, once they learned of his pedigree. Spat one avid white supremacist: "He's an interloper, an emotional idiot with a martyr complex and a power complex who is neurotically avid for publicity. His actions make him a double agent. He might as well be working for the other side...
Vehemently denying that he was a Red Chinese agent, Singh was careful not to criticize the Chinese Communists ("After all, I was their guest"), talked, instead, of making Nepal the "Switzerland of the Far East," i.e., neutral. He saw that there was no future in Nepalese politics without Indian backing, began insisting that India was Nepal's "best friend," and asked the Nepalese to be "more grateful" for Indian economic aid. He was invited to New Delhi and had a chat with Nehru. Nehru laconically concluded: "Not a Communist-just a freebooter...
...Hollywood party, Marilyn met a Columbia production assistant; he took her to see Maxwell Arnow, then Columbia's talent chief. Arnow inspected her with a routine but practiced eye, advised her to lose some weight and return. When he met her again by chance in the office of Agent Louis Shurr, she had lost the weight-at least enough for Arnow to see possibilities. He ordered a screen test, soon was excitedly telephoning colleagues: "I've got the girl." Against her parents' advice ("I never could see that sort of business. I still can't," says...