Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney III gave him no political comfort. "I am sure it would assist in the investigation of this matter," wrote Olney blandly, "to know whether you have addressed any such appeal to the government of the Dominican Republic, for which you are a registered agent, and, if so, the nature of the response...
...tired cop called "a million" clues. A sample last week was the testimony given a Havana judge by one Rafael ("The Corpse") Soler, who is under indictment for the murder of an anti-Trujillo Dominican exile in Havana last summer. Gangster Soler said that in 1953 a "Trujillo agent" offered him $100,000 to kill Galindez, but he found the job "too risky." The New York police sent for a transcript and prepared to delve into the background of the incident, hoping to find a solid lead, but the final solution to the Galindez mystery still seems as distant...
...nominee if the convention deadlocks. At first, this did not seem to fit very well with Truman's own announcement that he had decided not to be a member of the Missouri delegation (which will be pledged to Symington) because he wanted to remain a free agent. With the speculation season in swing, however, speculators began to calculate that perhaps Truman plus McKinney added up to a Harriman-Symington ticket...
...last time Tito saw Paris was as an undercover Communist agent during the Spanish civil war. Traveling on forged papers as a Czech named Jaromir Havlicek, he set up headquarters in a Left Bank fleabag to arrange the dispatch of 1,500 Yugoslav volunteers to fight for Loyalist Spain. The police kept...
...20th century only 20 foreigners (not including Tibetans and Nepalese) have visited the big, rambling mountain fort at Punakha that serves as Bhutan's capital. So rugged are Bhutan's passes and so formidable its mountains that the Indian government's political agent makes the trip to Punakha only once every three years. In Bhutan there is not a single wheeled form of transport-no bullock cart, not even a bicycle. Everything in Bhutan is carried along bridle paths by mules. Bhutan has no electricity, no roads, no factories, no industries, no movies. And there...