Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the U.S., Prochnow went to the University of Wisconsin, got his bachelor's degree in commerce and his master's in economics (he won his Ph.D. in finance at Northwestern University at 50), and went to work as a purchasing agent for Chicago's Union Trust Co., which later merged with the First National Bank. As vice president at First National, in charge of foreign banking, Prochnow traveled to nearly every country in the world. "Out of this," he says drily, "has come a certain amount of experience...
Duly registering with the Justice Department as the agent of a foreign government, Dewey agreed to "render such legal and counseling services as registrant may be in a position to render which are required by the affairs of the Republic of Turkey in the U.S." Last week, after a seven-day visit to get acquainted with his clients and the outlines of his assignment, Lawyer Dewey flew off on a round-the-world tour, planned to be back by Oct. 27 to talk Turkey in the U.S. The retainer to the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood...
...Alan stick their heads through the noble statue of The Burghers of Calais and smooch a little. Jeanne, as she bats those baby-blues at The Thinker, declares, "I wonder what he is thinking about." After that, nothing matters anyhow. Jane Russell keeps trying to give Scott Brady, her agent, the other 90% of her; and both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time. In this case, it sounds more as if they...
...country, and that his was allowed to take out undeveloped film, in addition to books, manuscripts, and even microfilms. But on one occasion Frye had a brief run in with the MVD. While eating with some Indian travelers he had met, he was discovered by a trio of MVD agents. At first they were unable to believe that he was an American, and apparently traveling without restriction. When he produced a passport and other documents, the reaction from the chief MVD agent was, "But this is impossible." The agents left the room perplexed, and, Frye surmises, went off to telephone...
...Tell me," the agent said secretively in English, "My accent when I speak English...