Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the strikers and management had worked out most of the fine print for a new contract by week's end, policyholders were still mailing in their premiums, and the agents, who have no strike fund, were still living off past commissions. In many cases, this was no particular hardship, since a hard working and fortunate agent can make $100,000 a year...
...British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this pioneering world's fair, Cook's brought 165,000 visitors...
...testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that of stopping time--freezing and thereby capturing an ever-undeniable reality...
There is a constant struggle for the preservation of the Black male image. White America has labeled the Black man as "Boy." Whether he be 15 or 70 he's still just plain old "Boy." "Why yes, I know him, he's a good colored boy." The White welfare agent keeps a constant check on whether the Black father is coing home nights. This splits the Black family just as it's been split since the late 1500's and early 1600's. So it seems that "Whitie" is a chief symbol of success while little Black children are being...
...because he wears a white hat," little Black children see a cleanser on TV that cleans all black dirt and grime like a white tornado and they see the tooth decay villain dressed in black (causing the teeth of kids like them to hurt) and they see a toothpaste agent all in white destroying the nasty ugly tooth decay villain, "If a Black cat crosses your path, it's bad luck, "If you want to tell a lie, it's all right if it's a white lie," and TV viewers see a single-handed super white honkie who swings...